14 h. ago National security council investigating after Trump officials accidentally text journalist top

Members of the administration, including Pete Hegseth and JD Vance, were on group that inadvertently added Atlantic editorOutrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalistDonald Trump’s forceful attack on the American judiciary hits the appeals court today for a high-stakes hearing over the president’s controversial use of wartime powers to deport foreign migrants.Politico reports that the Trump administration will urge a three-member appeals panel to overturn federal judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order blocking use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport planeloads of migrants without due process. Justice Department lawyers will also demand Boasberg be thrown off the case following a ferocious weeklong effort to publicly discredit him led by the president himself. The hearing starts in Washington at 1.30pm ET, each side will be allocated 30 minutes to make their ...

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15 h. ago ‘Nazis got better treatment’ than Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act, says appeal court judge – US politics live

US circuit judge Patricia Millett criticizes lack of due process as Venezuelans were deported to El Salvador without the right to contest their removalDonald Trump’s forceful attack on the American judiciary hits the appeals court today for a high-stakes hearing over the president’s controversial use of wartime powers to deport foreign migrants.Politico reports that the Trump administration will urge a three-member appeals panel to overturn federal judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order blocking use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport planeloads of migrants without due process. Justice Department lawyers will also demand Boasberg be thrown off the case following a ferocious weeklong effort to publicly discredit him led by the president himself. The hearing starts in Washington at 1.30pm ET, each side will be allocated 30 minutes to make their case. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Trump to impose 25% tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela – US politics live

President announces ‘secondary tariff’ amid baseless claim that Venezuela is sending criminals to the US Donald Trump’s forceful attack on the American judiciary hits the appeals court today for a high-stakes hearing over the president’s controversial use of wartime powers to deport foreign migrants.Politico reports that the Trump administration will urge a three-member appeals panel to overturn federal judge James Boasberg’s temporary restraining order blocking use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport planeloads of migrants without due process. Justice Department lawyers will also demand Boasberg be thrown off the case following a ferocious weeklong effort to publicly discredit him led by the president himself. The hearing starts in Washington at 1.30pm ET, each side will be allocated 30 minutes to make their case. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago ‘The authoritarian playbook’: Trump targets judges, lawyers and law itself

Attacks on key US institutions seek to stifle dissent, exact revenge and subordinate them to the president, experts sayNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.As Donald Trump aggressively seeks revenge against multiple foes in the US, he’s waging a vendetta using executive orders and social media against judges, law firms, prosecutors, the press and other vital American institutions to stifle dissent and exact retribution.Legal scholars say the president’s menacing attacks, some of which Trump’s biggest campaign backer, the billionaire Elon Musk, has echoed, are aimed at silencing critics of his radical agenda and undercut the rule of law in authoritarian ways that expand his own powers. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago Starmer urged not to appease Trump with tax cut for US tech giants

Prime minister warned not to ‘rob disabled people to appease Musk and Trump’

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66 h. ago Did AI mania rush Apple into making a rare misstep with Siri? | John Naughton

The company that prides itself on announcing products only when they’re ready grossly underestimated the demands of personalising its virtual assistantAfter ChatGPT broke cover in late 2022 and the tech industry embarked on its contemporary rendering of tulip mania, people started to wonder why the biggest tech giant of all – Apple – was keeping its distance from the madness. Eventually, the tech commentariat decided that there could be only two possible interpretations of this corporate standoffishness: either Apple was way behind the game being played by OpenAI et al; or it had cunning plans to unleash upon the world its own world-beating take on the technology.Finally, at its annual World Wide Developers’ Conference (WWDC) on 10 June last year Apple came clean. Or appeared to. For Apple, “AI” would not mean what those vulgar louts at OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Meta raved about, but something altogether more refined and sophisticated – something called “Apple Intelligence”. It ...

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3 d. ago The obscure Jimmy Lai ruling that exposed the erosion of Hong Kong’s rule of law

The moves that barred the media mogul’s choice of lawyer are immune from legal challenge, giving the national security committee what one expert called ‘the powers of a police state’The dwindling freedom in Hong Kong over the past few years has been described as “death by a thousand cuts”. Critics have been jailed, elections have been transformed into “patriots only” affairs, journalists have been harassed and hundreds of thousands of people have left.This week, an obscure legal development has, in the eyes of some legal experts, inflicted another cut on the city’s once revered legal system. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Elon Musk’s X sues Modi government over ‘unrestrained censorship’ in India

Social media firm’s lawsuit alleges government uses parallel mechanism to bypass legal process outlined in law

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4 d. ago Trump urged to target ‘coercive and discriminatory’ Australian media laws by Musk’s X, Apple, Google and Meta

The Computer & Communications Industry Association named Australia’s News Media Bargaining Incentive in its submissionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBig tech giants Apple, Meta, Google, Amazon and Elon Musk’s X have lodged a formal complaint urging the Trump administration to target “coercive and discriminatory” Australian media laws.The members of the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) responded to a request by the Office of the United States Trade Representative for “comments to assist in reviewing and identifying unfair trade practices and initiating all necessary actions to investigate harm from non-reciprocal trade arrangements”. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape | Martin Kettle

Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drumAn Atlantic alliance without the United States? It sounds like a contradiction in terms – Hamlet without the prince. Yet this is the improbable, disjunctive world we now inhabit. It is the one in which our children and grandchildren will live their lives. Like it or not, the systemic shock launched by Donald Trump is our new reality. Absolutely nothing about Trump’s latest phone call with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday has changed that.Europe’s scramble to respond to Trump’s return to power was driven initially by the urgency of maintaining support for Ukraine. Most of the focus was diplomatic: keeping US military aid and intelligence flowing, shoring up damaged channels between Washington and Kyiv, engaging quietly with both Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to both encourage and deter, while moving very publicly to take up more of the security burden. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago STEPHEN GLOVER: If the despicable sight of Trump and Putin carving up Ukraine doesn't wake Starmer up to the urgent need to rearm, nothing will

The last time the big powers carved up Eastern Europe was at Yalta in February 1945.

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6 d. ago I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped

I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was luckyThere was no explanation, no warning. One minute, I was in an immigration office talking to an officer about my work visa, which had been approved months before and allowed me, a Canadian, to work in the US. The next, I was told to put my hands against the wall, and patted down like a criminal before being sent to an Ice detention center without the chance to talk to a lawyer.I grew up in Whitehorse, Yukon, a small town in the northernmost part of Canada. I always knew I wanted to do something bigger with my life. I left home early and moved to Vancouver, British Columbia, where I built a career spanning multiple industries – acting in film and television, owning bars and restaurants, flipping condos and managing Airbnbs. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Howard Lutnick touts Elon Musk’s Starlink for US broadband scheme

Commerce secretary urges officials to consider Trump adviser’s satellite connection for rural households

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer’s urgent phone call to Donald Trump revealed with seven

Keir Starmer held a phone call with Donald Trump on Monday night in which he told him Ukraine must be put in the 'strongest possible position' to secure a 'just and lasting peace'

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6 d. ago Keir Starmer urges Trump to put Ukraine in 'strongest possible position' for a 'just and lasting peace' ahead of US president's crunch call with Putin

Keir Starmer spoke to Donald Trump ahead of the conversation he is due to have with the Russian leader later.

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8 d. ago US evangelical groups urge Trump to spare HIV/Aids program from aid cuts

Christian organizations helped create Pepfar, credited with preventing 25m early deaths, particularly in AfricaChristian evangelical organizations instrumental in creating the US program that has saved millions of lives from HIV/Aids are pressing the Trump administration to rescue the scheme from crushing cuts to foreign assistance.The state department has said that the two-decade-old President’s Emergency Plan for Aids Relief (Pepfar), which is estimated to have prevented 25m early deaths, is exempt from the cancellation of most US overseas aid. But the program is heavily reliant on logistical support from the US Agency for International Development (USAid), which has seen most of its projects killed off. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Italy one of five ‘dismantlers’ causing ‘democratic recession’ in Europe, report says

Civil liberties report warns that Italy along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia intentionally undermining rule of law ‘in nearly all aspects’Italy’s government has profoundly undermined the rule of law with changes to the judiciary and showed “heavy intolerance to media criticism”, in an emblematic example of Europe’s deepening “democratic recession”, a coalition of civil liberties groups has said.A report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) said Italy was one of five “dismantlers” – along with Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania and Slovakia – that “intentionally undermine the rule of law in nearly all aspects”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Trump's national security adviser issues urgent warning to Iran... as he reveals extent of damage done by Yemen airstrikes

National Security Adviser Mike Waltz said 'all options are always on the table' after President Trump warned Iran to stop its support for Houthi rebels as the U.S. carried out airstrikes in Yemen.

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9 d. ago Canadians urge King Charles to open their parliament in show of support amid Trump attacks

King Charles has been praised by Canadians for his 'subtle diplomacy' amid the onslaught from Mr Trump to make the country the '51st state' of America.

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9 d. ago Starmer sends message to Trump as world leaders discuss peacekeeping in Ukraine

Sir Keir Starmer maintained that Donald Trump is “absolutely committed” to lasting peace in Ukraine, while urging allies to move forward together to achieve an end to Russia’s invasion of the country.

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