47 h. ago Democrats hail major win as Susan Crawford delivers blow to Trump and Musk in Wisconsin – US politics live

Liberal judge Susan Crawford wins race for seat on Wisconsin supreme court in litmus test for Donald Trump’s and Elon Musk’s popularityLiberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidateDonald Trump’s planned tariffs will be negative across the world, with the damage depending on how far they go, how long they last and whether they lead to successful negotiations, the European Central Bank head, Christine Lagarde, said on Wednesday.The Trump administration on Wednesday is set to announce “reciprocal tariffs” targeting nations that have duties on US goods. That move would come after it slapped new import levies on products from Mexico, China and Canada – the top US trading partners – as well as on goods including steel and autos.Wisconsin beat the billionaire.Wisconsin cannot be bought. Our democracy is not for sale. And when we fight, we win. Congratulations, @CrawfordForWI Continue reading...

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67 h. ago The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s tariffs: a spectacle of struggle and control | Editorial

The US president wields tariffs not as a policy tool but as an instrument of pressure, rewarding loyalty and punishing defiance – even among alliesDonald Trump has probably not read much Michel Foucault. But he appears to embody the French philosopher’s claim that “politics is the continuation of war by other means”. Nowhere is this more apparent than in his fondness for tariffs. He presents taxing foreign imports as a way to rebuild the American economy in favour of blue-collar workers left behind by free trade and globalisation. Yet he plainly thinks that politics is not about truth or justice. It is about leverage and supremacy.Britain is learning first-hand that Mr Trump, with his us-versus-them framing and taste for spectacle, is an accidental Foucauldian – using tariffs as tools of loyalty and dominance, even against allies. If Mr Trump follows through on his threat to impose a 20% tariff on all imports, UK growth will suffer. The effect depends on the response....

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2 d. ago Cyprus court acquits five Israeli men accused of raping British woman

Woman’s lawyer says verdict proof of ‘patriarchal’ justice system and does not rule out taking case to European court of human rightsA Cyprus court’s acquittal of five men accused of abducting and raping a British woman in the resort of Ayia Napa has been met with outrage as calls mount for the verdict to be challenged.Dismissing the charges on Monday, the three-member district court in Paralimni ruled the testimony of the 20-year-old had not been credible because it “lacked coherence and contained numerous substantial contradictions”. The defendants, Israelis aged between 19 and 20, claimed sexual contact with the woman had been consensual. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Five Israeli men are CLEARED of gang raping Brit tourist, 20, in Ayia Napa hotel as Cypriot court calls her testimony 'inconsistent'

The defendants from the Israeli Arab town of Majd al-Krum, all of whom were aged between 19 and 20 at the time of the alleged incident, were reported to police by the British woman in September 2023

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4 d. ago A Wisconsin state supreme court race will test whether abortion can still tip an election

Two years after the fall of Roe v Wade, it is no longer clear whether voters will show up for the singular issueThe United States on Tuesday will face its first major election of the Trump 2.0 era: a race for a single state supreme court seat in Wisconsin that could not only rewrite abortion access in the state, but test whether the issue of abortion rights can still drive voters to the polls.On Tuesday, Wisconsin residents will decide whether to elect liberal Susan Crawford or conservative Brad Schimel, two county judges, to the state supreme court, which is poised to weigh in on two major abortion cases. Abortion rights advocates are trying to use the threat to the procedure to convince people to head to the polls, but, more than two years after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade, it is no longer clear whether abortion can tip an election. Democratic candidates talked about outrage over Roe constantly during the 2024 election – and fell short, losing both the White House a...

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6 d. ago Wisconsin supreme court race a litmus test for Elon Musk’s political power

The high-stakes race will determine which party will control a court that will rule on abortion and voting rightsA race to determine control of the Wisconsin supreme court that has profound stakes for voting, abortion and labor rights in the state, is also shaping up to be a litmus test of Elon Musk’s political power, making it one of the most consequential elections of Donald Trump’s second term.Liberals currently hold a 4-3 majority on the state supreme court, but the liberal justice Ann Walsh Bradley is retiring. Susan Crawford, a liberal judge, is facing off on Tuesday against the conservative judge Brad Schimel for the seat. The winner will determine which party has control of a court that is set to rule on the future of the state’s 1849 abortion ban, collective bargaining rights and the makeup of the state’s six congressional districts. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen testifies against his OWN FATHER in court over childhood 'physical and mental abuse'

Jakob Ingebrigtsen has recounted stories of violence during his childhood as he testified against father Gjert on Tuesday.

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9 d. ago Kim Kardashian to face Paris armed robbers as she's set to 'testify' in court

Kim Kardashian is reportedly set to fly to France to give evidence against a gang who held her hostage during an armed robbery in Paris during a trip with her sister

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9 d. ago Jakob Ingebrigtsen tells court of fear and control in testimony against father

‘Upbringing closely tied to fear,’ athlete says in abuse caseIngebrigtsen Sr allegedly physically abused daughter, tooThe double Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen described a childhood marked by fear and manipulation when he took the witness stand on Tuesday in a Norwegian court to testify against his father and former coach.Gjert Ingebrigtsen has pleaded not guilty to charges of physically abusing two of his seven children, namely the track athlete and his sister, Ingrid. The 59-year-old faces up to six years in prison, with the trial due to run until 16 May in Sandnes, south-western Norway. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Jakob Ingebrigtsen tells court of father’s physical abuse in testimony

Athlete recounts evidence of ‘violence’ for four hoursIngebrigtsen Sr allegedly physically abused daughter tooFew sports stories have been more beguiling or eccentric than that of the Ingebrigtsens, the Norwegian running family who from earliest childhood were trained as professional athletes by their father, Gjert. When his sons, Jakob, Filip and Henrik, stormed to Olympic, world and European titles, the reality television cameras were there to capture many of the steps, squabbles and medals along the way. Little wonder that Team Ingebrigtsen became the most popular TV show in Norwegian history.But on Tuesday a courtroom in Sandnes, in the south-west of the country, heard that the reality inside the family home was far bleaker, with harrowing stories of violence, threats and manipulative behaviour from Gjert towards Jakob, the double Olympic champion, and his younger sister, Ingrid. Continue reading...

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1 week ago In defiance of Donald Trump, is a European ‘security council’ emerging? | Paul Taylor

With the US threatening unilateral withdrawal, even from the top Nato military post, five European nations must fill the vacuumIn the face of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and Donald Trump’s destabilisation of the Atlantic alliance, an embryonic European security council is taking shape on the hoof. Whether it will prove strong enough to protect Europe’s liberal democracies and deter Russia without US military support may be tested all too soon.Nato was created under US leadership to keep the Soviet Union at bay while suppressing centuries-old rivalries among European powers. The alliance stayed united through the cold war and attracted new central European members after communist rule collapsed. But the spectre of US disengagement now threatens to leave Europe without its nuclear-armed protector.Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump’s defiance of court orders is ‘testing the fences’ of the rule of law

Administration’s ‘unprecedented degree of resistance’ to judiciary undercuts its authority and weakens democracyDonald Trump’s second administration has shown an “unprecedented degree of resistance” to adverse court rulings, experts say, part of a forceful attack on the American judiciary that threatens to undermine the rule of law, undercut a co-equal branch of government and weaken American democracy.The attacks, experts say, threaten one of the fundamental pillars of American government: that the judicial branch has the power to interpret the law and the other branches will abide by its rulings. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Conservative former federal judge says Trump has ‘declared war’ on US rule of law

J Michael Luttig said a constitutional crisis is brewing due to Trump’s defiance of a court order over deportationsNever miss global breaking news. Download our free app to keep up with key stories in real time.Donald Trump has “declared war on the rule of law in America” and is pitching the country into a constitutional crisis, a prominent former conservative federal judge said.“The president of the United States has essentially declared war on the rule of law in America,” J Michael Luttig told MSNBC. “In the past few weeks the president himself has led a full-frontal assault on the constitution, the rule of law, the federal judiciary, the American justice system and the nation’s legal profession. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Heckuva stretch’: Skeptical judge questions Trump’s defiance over deportation order

Trump administration attorneys stonewall federal judge as he grills them about deportation flights that he ordered not to leave

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3 w. ago Survivor who ignited US Catholic church’s reckoning with abuse killed in Louisiana

Scott Anthony Gastal, who at age 11 had testified in court in the 1980s that his priest had raped him, was beaten to deathThe clergy abuse survivor who effectively ignited the US Catholic church’s reckoning with clerical molestation when – at age 11 – he testified in the 1980s that his priest had raped him was recently beaten to death in south-west Louisiana.Scott Anthony Gastal, whose later life was marked by legal struggles after enduring child sexual abuse at the hands of notorious clergy predator Gilbert Gauthe, was 50. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Heartbreaking moment little boy, 7, cries as he reveals his mum murdered his sister

Seven-year-old AJ Hutton weeped as he testified against his mother in court following the death of his older sister Adrianna, who'd passed away at their home in Florida

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4 w. ago Idaho murders trial rocked by curveball DNA evidence found under victim's fingernails

In a new bombshell court document, Bryan Kohberger's defense team reveals DNA testing of Madison Mogen's fingernail clippings came back positive for three mystery individuals.

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