8 h. ago Trump administration slashes $2.2bn in federal money from Harvard after it refuses president’s ‘dictates’

‘The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,’ said a letter from Harvard’s lawyers.’ No private university ‘can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government’

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19 h. ago TikTok filming in six seemingly innocent airport spots could get you banned or fined

Avoid filming at all costs in these busy airport spaces - it could ruin your trip

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29 h. ago Trump official who oversaw dismantling of USAID leaves US state department

Under Pete Marocco’s lead, nearly all USAID staff was fired, with funding slashed and contractors dismissedPete Marocco, the Trump administration official who played a major role in dismantling the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has left the state department, a US official said on Sunday.Donald Trump’s administration has moved to fire nearly all USAID staff, as billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called “department of government efficiency” has slashed funding and dismissed contractors across the federal bureaucracy in what it calls an attack on wasteful spending. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science

Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashedDonald Trump shows no signs of easing his assault on climate science as plans of more sweeping cuts to key US research centers surfaced on Friday.The administration is planning to slash budgets at both the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (Noaa) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), according to internal budget documents, taking aim specifically at programs used to study impacts from the climate crisis. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Millions on coal from Japan to save our steel: Net zero 'madness' as taxpayers foot the bill to keep furnaces burning

It comes just months after Energy Secretary Ed Miliband declared he had banned new coal mines in Britain to 'send a signal to the world' on climate change.

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4 d. ago Trump was ‘the candidate of peace’. Now he’s fanning the flames of war | Mohamad Bazzi

The US is bombing Houthi rebels and supporting Netanyahu’s campaigns as it sleepwalks into new conflictsThroughout the last presidential campaign, Donald Trump portrayed himself as the candidate who would bring peace to an unstable world. He promised to use his deal-making experience to negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and Israel’s war on Gaza, among other global conflicts.“If Kamala wins, only death and destruction await because she is the candidate of endless wars. I am the candidate of peace,” Trump told a rally in Michigan on 1 November, as he urged Arab and Muslim American voters to choose him over the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump reportedly to cut grant for key US steel project in Vance’s home town

Outcry as CNN reports president to stop funds for program that would have created jobs in Middletown, OhioDespite promises to bolster the US manufacturing industry, the Trump administration is reportedly planning to cut a key program that invests in some of the biggest manufacturing industries in the US, including in JD Vance’s home town of Middletown, Ohio.Donald Trump is looking to slash a $500m grant from the Biden administration that was slated for Cleveland-Cliffs, a steel manufacturing giant in America’s rust belt, according to reporting from CNN. The grant was intended to help the company upgrade its ageing blast furnaces, so they would be powered by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity instead of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago The deadly truth as family planning slashed in Trump’s global aid cuts

With the wiping out of global aid to maternal health, it feels necessary to point out that fewer unplanned births means fewer mothers dying, writes chief international correspondent Bel Trew from Uganda

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7 d. ago DWP issues state pension triple lock statement as millions to receive extra £470

Millions will receive an extra £470 a year in State Pension as payments increase - full list of new rates

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7 d. ago Alarm as Republicans in Congress back Trump and Musk’s attacks on US judges

Mike Johnson and Jim Jordan echo president and key ally as experts express fears for ‘bedrock constitutional principles’As Donald Trump and Elon Musk widen their radical attacks on US judges who have stalled some of Trump’s executive orders and Musk’s slashing of federal agencies, they’re gaining backing from top House Republicans and other politicians, including some to whom the tech billionaire made big campaign donations.House speaker Mike Johnson and judiciary panel chairman Jim Jordan have echoed some of Trump’s attacks on judges, and a judiciary subcommittee hearing on April 1 explored “judicial overreach” and ways to curb judges who have stymied some Trump orders or Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) and its draconian cuts to the federal government. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Former Scottish Conservatives MP lands job at Donald Trump golf resort

Ross Thomson, who has previously visited Mar-a-Lago, is working in corporate sales at the Trump International resort in Aberdeenshire.

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1 week ago Federal Reserve chair Powell predicts tariffs will spike inflation and slow economic growth

Comes as President Donald Trump calls on Powell to slash interest rates

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1 week ago Millions of UK workers see thousands slashed from pension pots in Trump's tariff turmoil

Market mayhem continues with another £2trillion wiped off shares as experts warn it's 'not a good time' for UK workers whose pension pots have been hammered

Economics

1 week ago RFK Jr says 20% of Doge’s health agency job cuts were mistakes

Health secretary says roles will need to be reinstated amid Trump administration’s push to slash federal workforceUS politics live – latest updatesAround a fifth of the 10,000 jobs cut from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) were done in error and will need to be corrected, the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has admitted.Mass layoffs from the health department began this week amid a push by Donald Trump’s administration to shrink the size of the federal government workforce. Union representatives were told around 10,000 people were to lose their jobs ahead of further reductions that could see the department’s 82,000-strong workforce slashed by nearly a quarter. Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Chaos’: Trump cuts to Noaa disrupt staffing and weather forecasts

US climate agency upended as Doge efforts to slash federal government compromise email securityA sense of chaos has gripped the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa), one of the world’s premier research agencies, with key staff hastily fired and then rehired, cuts to vital weather forecasting operations and even a new, unsecured server that led to staff being deluged by obscene spam emails.Noaa is currently being upended by Donald Trump’s desire to slash the federal government workforce, with more than 1,000 people already fired or resigning from the agency and 1,000 more staffers are expected to be removed as the purge continues. In total, this represents around 20% of the Noaa’s workforce. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Every European city quietly charging Brits £175 more in unexpected costs

Brits thinking of booking a holiday to Europe this year have been warned of sneaky charges that can quickly turn a seemingly 'budget-friendly trip into a costly surprise'

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2 w. ago Democrats in Pennsylvania are angry. John Fetterman’s old rival is listening

Amid Trump’s unprecedented slash-and-burn of the federal government, many Democratic voters feel their party is not doing enough to fight back. John Bowden reports from State College, Pennsylvania on a former congressman looking to meet the moment

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2 w. ago Trump makes sweeping HIV research and grant cuts: ‘setting us back decades’

Trump administration’s slashes to prevention and access expansion likely to erode progress on eliminating epidemicThe federal government has cancelled dozens of grants to study how to prevent new HIV infections and expand access to care, decimating progress toward eliminating the epidemic in the United States, scientists say.Over the last month, more than 300 research projects funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have been terminated – 65 of them were specifically related to researching advancements in HIV care. Some scientists were notified about losing funding as recently as last Thursday. NIH, a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, is the largest funding source of medical research in the world, leaving many scientists scrambling to figure out how to continue their work. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Activist group that helped create prison trans rules gets £500k of public money

An activist group which helped create controversial Scottish Prison Service trans guidance is majority funded by the taxpayer to the tune of more than half a million pounds.

Economics

2 w. ago Here’s how much Trump may slash the workforce in various agencies

Despite the cuts, the proposed savings by firing federal workers barely puts a dent in the $1.8 trillion Trump and Musk want to save

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