31 h. ago US government tells staff in China not to have romantic ties with Chinese citizens

Secret directive reportedly prompted by pressure from Congress members concerned about espionage risks

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41 h. ago Britain's benefit influencer epidemic: Scores of 'advisors' are dishing secrets online telling people how to maximise their government handouts

Accounts on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube have gone viral, with followers sharing success stories of how they bagged benefits by following these little known secrets.

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60 h. ago Union boss tells Angela Rayner ‘government can’t sit on hands’ over Birmingham bin strike row

Leaked letter reveals Unite's Sharon Graham told Deputy PM: 'Let me be very clear that the pay of these workers is being cut by a Labour Council under your watch.'

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61 h. ago US bans government personnel in China from romantic or sexual relations with Chinese citizens

The U.S. government has banned American government personnel in China, as well as family members and contractors with security clearances, from any romantic or sexual relationships with Chinese citizens

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2 d. ago Donald Trump tells allies that Elon Musk 'will leave Government soon'

Reports claim Tesla CEO will develop an ‘exit strategy’ and return to his businesses

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3 d. ago Prison governor tells court she was ‘incredibly stupid’ but did nothing wrong

Kerri Pegg, 42, is alleged to have begun a relationship with convicted drug dealer Anthony Saunderson.

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3 d. ago Donald Trump tells cabinet Elon Musk will leave top government role 'soon'

Musk has been heading up the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) taskforce since Trump returned to office in January.

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3 d. ago Judge holds ICE agent in contempt for detaining suspect in the middle of his trial

‘I can't think of any greater injustice than a man who is taken away from his trial in the middle of it by the government,’ Wilson Martell-Lebron’s defense attorney tells The Independent

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6 d. ago Artists must find ways of adapting to the 'inevitability' of Artificial Intelligence using their work, leaked paper from Tony Blair's think tank warns

Tony Blair 's think-tank is preparing to tell the Government that the rise of AI is 'inevitable' - and the UK will be left behind unless creators submit to Big Tech.

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1 week ago China frees staff of US consulting firm after two years in prison

The release of Mintz Group staff comes amid Beijing’s efforts to revive foreign investment

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2 w. ago Kate Moss's ex Jefferson Hack is expecting his first child with wife Anna Cleveland as American model announces she is 36 weeks pregnant

The CEO of Dazed Media, who is Kate Moss's ex, tied the knot with Anna in a romantic ceremony at Oakley Court in Windsor in 2023.

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2 w. ago Education Secretary says London’s falling birth rate brings ‘opportunities to think creatively’

Bridget Phillipson also tells the Standard that Government will ‘look at the evidence’ from Sir Sadiq Khan’s free school meal programme

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2 w. ago Animal lovers tell government to stop 'being nasty' to bats as they lock horns

The UK Government has locked horns with environmentalists as the animal lovers demand it stops 'being nasty' to bats and blaming the flying beasts for poor economic success

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2 w. ago Judge rules against Musk and ‘Doge’, finding USAid shutdown ‘likely violated’ constitution – US politics live

Federal judge orders halt on any work to shut down USAid and tells Musk’s so-called Department for government efficiency to reinstate workers’ email accessDonald Trump has called for the impeachment of the judge handling lawsuits over his administration’s deportation of suspected Venezuelan gang members, a significant escalation of rightwing attacks on the judiciary.While allies of the president such as Elon Musk have repeatedly said judges who rule against him should be impeached, this appears to be the first time the president has backed such calls publicly. Trump’s post on Truth Social does not name the judge, but seems to reference James Boasberg, the Washington DC-based justice who was appointed by Barack Obama and attempted to prevent the government from deporting the alleged gang members under the Alien Enemies Act. Here’s what Trump wrote:This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected Preside...

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3 w. ago At last things are looking up for Starmer after his spectacular turn Right. But he can't stop there

Starmer is about to find out you can't be half pregnant. That government has to be joined up to succeed. Time to tell Little Ed and Big Ange the game is up.

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3 w. ago Blockers, checkers, bats and chainsaws: don’t talk like Musk, Starmer is warned

PM has been urged to ‘get a grip’ on messaging after railing against the ‘flabby’ state and the civil service’s ‘tepid bath’Keir Starmer has been warned against adopting the language of Elon Musk after railing against “blockers and checkers” and the “flabby” civil service this week.Gus O’Donnell, the former cabinet secretary, was one of those urging the prime minister to “get a grip” on his messaging, telling the Institute for Government podcast: “My God, he has mishandled the communications on this terribly.” Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Tesla tells US government Trump trade war could ‘harm’ EV companies

Letter from Elon Musk’s firm to US trade representative warns of ‘downstream impacts’ of tit-for-tat tariffsBusiness live – latest updatesElon Musk’s Tesla has warned that Donald Trump’s trade war could expose the electric carmaker to retaliatory tariffs that would also affect other automotive manufacturers in the US.In an unsigned letter to Jamieson Greer, the US trade representative, Tesla said it “supports fair trade” but that the US administration should ensure it did not “inadvertently harm US companies”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Government must stop ‘outsourcing’ decisions to regulators, PM tells Cabinet

Sir Keir Starmer is expected to set out plans to overhaul the British state later in the week.

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4 w. ago Islamophobia charity Tell Mama facing closure after funding pulled by government

Police sources raise alarm over cut as anti-Muslim hate incidents in Britain hit record highThe government is cutting all funding for the Islamophobia reporting service Tell Mama, leaving it facing closure weeks after it revealed a record number of anti-Muslim hate incidents in Britain.Since its foundation in 2012, Tell Mama has been wholly funded by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government to run its reporting service, which received almost 11,000 reports in 2023-4, and support victims of Islamophobia. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Ohio governor tells the Trump administration to hurry up bird flu response

Ohio has lost 15.5 million commercial poultry birds and reported its first suspected human bird flu case last month

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