27 m. ago Chaotic scenes inside parliament chamber as brawling politicians 'pull hair'

Mexico City's parliament descended into absolute chaos when members from the ruling and opposition parties clashed and began shoving and pulling each other's hair

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68 m. ago Trump’s ‘60 Minutes’ obsession causes him to once again lash out at MAGA

‘If they are friends, I’d hate to see my enemies,’ Trump fumed on Tuesday.

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72 m. ago Starmer hails Labour’s flagship Employment Rights Bill after climbdown by peers means it is set to become law

Business secretary Peter Kyle praised the ‘landmark legislation’ that will ‘drag Britain's outdated employment laws into the 21st century’

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79 m. ago Why can’t the White House and Republicans in Congress get on the same page to fix Obamacare?

Congress is directionless as Trump checks out, unwilling to bail out his hated foe’s signature policy achievement even though his party faces electoral doom, write John Bowden and Andrew Feinberg

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89 m. ago UK ‘set to rejoin EU’s Erasmus scheme’ as part of Starmer’s Brexit reset

Ministers could announce the return to Erasmus as soon as Wednesday, according to reports

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1 hour ago Illinois law generates $1.5B to save public transit from fiscal calamity

Public transit in the Chicago metropolitan area will get a $1.5 billion infusion to save it from financial disaster under a law that will take effect next summer

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2 h. ago George Osborne takes role with ‘most exciting company in the world’ OpenAI

The former chancellor is leaving his job with investment bank Evercore to take up the role.

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2 h. ago Vanity Fair portraits of White House leaders hoped to cut through ‘political theater.’ Instead they drew snickers online

Photographer Christopher Anderson told The Independent that his photographs of administration officials were consistent with his other portraits

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3 h. ago Trump’s chief of staff suggests real goal of US boat strikes is to topple Venezuela’s Maduro – live

Susie Wiles says Trump wants to keep ‘blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle’ in a wide-ranging interview with Vanity FairWiles also said she had told Donald Trump that his second term was not supposed to be a retribution tour.“We have a loose agreement that the score settling will end before the first 90 days are over,” she said in an interview in March.I mean, people could think it does look vindictive. I can’t tell you why you shouldn’t think that.I don’t think he [Trump] wakes up thinking about retribution. But when there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.Some clinical psychologist that knows one million times more than I do will dispute what I’m going to say. But high-functioning alcoholics or alcoholics in general, their personalities are exaggerated when they drink. And so I’m a little bit of an expert in big personalities. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Deportations of foreign offenders has 'skyrocketed' under Labour Government

David Lammy announced that more than 2,700 foreign national offenders were deported over the past year

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3 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump’s BBC lawsuit: grievance politics with a purpose | Editorial

The US president has repeatedly targeted American media in an attempt to muzzle debate and scrutiny. His attempt to export the bullying must be resistedOn the day that the government launched a high-stakes consultation to consider fresh ways of funding the BBC in the digital era, the corporation could have done without another difficult news event of its own. Donald Trump’s decision to follow through on threats to sue over the content of a Panorama programme broadcast in October 2024 may not have come as a surprise, given Mr Trump’s litigious record in the United States. But it will add to the general air of beleaguerment at the corporation and further embolden its domestic political enemies.A terse BBC statement on Tuesday suggested that there would be no backing down in the face of White House bullying. That is the right response to absurd claims of “overwhelming financial and reputational harm” caused to the US president, and a fantastical request for damages amounting to $10bn. ...

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3 h. ago Trump promises White House address Wednesday night but is mum on details

‘It has been a great year for our Country, and THE BEST IS YET TO COME,’ Trump said in making the announcement

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3 h. ago Chelsea XI vs Cardiff: Starting lineup, confirmed team news, injury latest for Carabao Cup today

Chelsea without Cole Palmer for trip to Wales, but Moises Caicedo is back after domestic suspension

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4 h. ago Fighting it out: Trump lawyers turn on each other over alleged ‘financial shenanigans’

Ex-Trump attorney Eric Herschmann claims ex-Trump attorney Marc Kasowitz stiffed him out of millions – but Kasowitz says he’s the real victim

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4 h. ago Paul Scholes thinks he knows Arsenal aces' view on player Mikel Arteta was 'forced to sign'

Paul Scholes has gone into depth into what he believes are the honest views Arsenal players hold on one star within their ranks in north London

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4 h. ago Hegseth says Pentagon won’t release unedited video of double

Members of Congress will review the footage but ‘not the general public,’ defense secretary says amid growing scrutiny into attacks

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4 h. ago ‘Net stupid zero’ vs economic madness: How the climate change debate is losing touch with reality

Right-wing and hard-left politicians offer little hope that humanity will emerge unscathed from its latest Fermi Paradox ‘great filter’

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5 h. ago Trump’s White House chief rips Elon Musk for USAID cuts ‘no rational person’ could support

Wiles calls Elon Musk an ‘avowed’ ketamine user who kept sleeping bag in his office

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5 h. ago Why Donald Trump’s $10bn lawsuit against the BBC is doomed to fail

The BBC is accused of misleading viewers by editing a speech Donald Trump delivered on 6 January 2021

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5 h. ago Trump’s ‘ice maiden’ Susie Wiles unloads on president’s agenda in candid interviews with Vanity Fair

White House chief of staff labels JD Vance a ‘conspiracy theorist’ and Elon Musk an ‘avowed ketamine’ user in revealing interviews throughout the president’s chaotic year in office

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