20 h. ago My rare disease was getting closer to a cure. RFK Jr could undermine that | Jameson Rich

The Trump administration’s funding cuts to the NIH could destroy a wave of approaching research breakthroughsSince Robert F Kennedy Jr assumed control of the US health department in February, with a mandate to “[lower] chronic disease rates and [end] childhood chronic disease”, he has moved quickly to remake the US’s federal health infrastructure. But the Trump administration’s actions on medical research are already threatening that goal – and could end medical progress in this country for good.Kennedy’s office oversees the National Institutes of Health, the control center of disease research in the United States. Kennedy’s agency has killed almost 800 active projects, according to Nature, affecting medical research into HIV/Aids, diabetes, women’s health, heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer’s and more. The administration wants to cut the NIH’s budget up to 40% while consolidating its 27 agencies – separated by disease area – into just eight. Elon Musk’s Doge has been reviewing previo...

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26 h. ago European and Asian carmakers face steep shipping costs to US on top of tariffs

Trump’s new port fee policy threatens to wreak havoc on the $150bn American seaborne car import market

Economics

32 h. ago Trump has threatened a 100% tariff on movies made outside the US. Here's what we know

President Donald Trump is threatening to levy all films made outside the U.S. at a steep rate of 100%

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33 h. ago How Britain became Hollywood's biggest threat as Trump threatens movie tariffs

President Trump has announced plans to hit films made outside of the UK with 100% tariffs in a bid to save the US' 'dying' film industry as filmmakers move abroad to keep costs down

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41 h. ago Macron says Trump’s academic crackdown threatens US economy and democracy

French leader makes pitch alongside European Commission’s Ursula von der Leyen for researchers to come to Europe

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41 h. ago Trump live: President says foreign films are ‘national security threat’ and threatens high tariffs

‘The movie industry in America is DYING a very fast death,’ Donald Trump warns

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54 h. ago President Trump threatens 100% tariffs on foreign films: ‘The movie industry in America is dying’

‘We want movies made in America, again!’ proclaimed the President

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3 d. ago Russia threatens to nuke the US into 'radioactive Waterworld' in attack on Trump

Russian state TV host Vladimir Solovyov also dismissed the idea President Donald Trump can control Vladimir Putin in a raging rant aimed at both American politicians and the broader West

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4 d. ago 'Donald Trump will be US president for a third term', former adviser warns

Donald Trump's former advisor has issued a warning after he previously threatened to circumvent the constitutional limit stopping US presidents from serving three terms.

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5 d. ago Donald Trump WILL be US president for a third term, warns his former adviser

Donald Trump previously threatened to circumvent the constitutional limit stopping US presidents from serving three terms - and now this vow is said to look even more likely

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5 d. ago Drudge Report owner threatens Trump with '$1 TRILLION lawsuit' after White House launched copycat news site

The site represents Trump's latest attempt to circumvent mainstream media, after going after legacy new organizations ranging from ABC News to the Associated Press.

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6 d. ago More than 60 percent of toymakers forced to cancel orders as Trump’s tariffs threaten Christmas

‘We have a frozen supply chain that is putting Christmas at risk,’ a Toy Association executive said

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7 d. ago Putin's Kremlin mouthpiece mocks Donald Trump and insists 'the war will go on and on'

TV propagandist Vladimir Solovyov has slammed Donald Trump for threatening Russia with sanctions if Putin fails to go ahead with a ceasefire. He said Russia has more work to do

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8 d. ago Who is Pierre Poilievre? Conservative leader who could become Canada’s next prime minister

Canada’s election comes in the shadow of Donald Trump, who has threatened his North American neighbour with tariffs and annexation

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8 d. ago Trump administration’s budget cuts endanger Meals on Wheels: ‘life and death implications’

Trump team’s slashes to US health department threaten popular program that combats elder hunger and isolationThe Trump administration’s slashes to the Department of Health and Human Services is threatening Meals on Wheels, the popular program dedicated to combatting senior hunger and isolation. Despite decades of bipartisan support, Meals on Wheels now faces attacks from Republicans whose budget blueprint paves the way for deep cuts to nutrition and other social safety-net programs as a way to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.It’s a move anti-hunger advocates and policy experts warn could have disastrous ramifications for the millions of older Americans who rely on the program to eat each day. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Tyrants like Trump always fall – and we can already predict how he will be dethroned | Simon Tisdall

The US constitution protects incompetence. But don’t underestimate the self-destructive power of the president’s own hubrisTyrants come to a sticky end, or so history suggests. Richard III and Coriolanus made bloody exits. More recently, Saddam Hussein went to the gallows, Slobodan Milosevic went to jail, Bashar al-Assad went into exile. Libya’s Muammar Gaddafi was run to ground in a sewer. Tyranny, from the Greek túrannos (“absolute ruler”), is typically fuelled by hubris and leads ineluctably to nemesis. Tyrants are for toppling. Their downfall is a saving grace.Tyranny, in its many forms, is back in vogue, and everyone knows who’s to blame. To be fair, to suggest similarities between the aforementioned abominable individuals and Donald Trump would be utterly wrong. In key respects, he’s worse. Measured by willingness and capacity to harm the world’s poorest and most vulnerable, wreak global economic mayhem and threaten nuclear annihilation, Trump is uniquely dangerous – and ever ...

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1 week ago ‘The costume develops its own microclimate’: what it’s like to run a marathon in a novelty outfit

From stocky rhinos to mighty oak trees, dragging these costumes over 26 miles can be a punishing experienceA few minutes before the 2023 London Marathon began, Richard Stoate was getting into costume on the side of the road.It was a two-person job: the 43-year-old wasn’t just wearing trainers and sportswear for the 26.2-mile run. He was raising money for the young people’s charity WellChild, so – with his partner’s help – he climbed into a 10ft (3-metre) purple nurse costume. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump’s war with Fed threatens lasting damage to Treasuries, say investors

Big investors warn of risks to world’s largest and most liquid bond market from US president’s attacks on central bank

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1 week ago China schools Trump on the art of a tariff deal: Don’t threaten us

Donald Trump has announced he’s willing to back way off Chinese tariffs after his levy package hit the stock market, the strength of the dollar, small businesses and American jobs.

Economics

2 w. ago China threatens to retaliate against countries that strike trade deals with Trump

Warning from Beijing comes as Vice President JD Vance meets Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to discuss path to trade deal

Economics