news2shortsFellow carmakers Stellantis and Mercedes withdraw financial guidance for year over impact of trade war The British sportscar maker Aston Martin is limiting exports to the US in the face of Donald Trump’s tariffs, while its counterparts Stellantis and Mercedes withdrew their financial guidance for the year, blaming the uncertainty around changing US policy on … Read more
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Here’s what actually happened to that Wisconsin judge. Setting aside the spin – and there’s plenty of it from some Democrats and pundits – these are the facts. Based on the criminal complaint, county judge Hannah Dugan had a hearing scheduled for illegal Mexican immigrant Eduardo Flores-Ruiz – who is already facing charges of domestic … Read more
Index of activity drops to lowest reading since December 2023 as a result of ‘sharp changes’ in international trading China’s factory activity slowed in April, with Beijing blaming “sharp changes” in the global economy as it fights a mounting trade war with the United States. Punishing US tariffs that reached 145% on many Chinese products … Read more
As part of the price for peace, Moscow would like sanctions on Russian airlines lifted. That’s no surprise: they’re vital to the Kremlin’s war machine On Monday, the Kremlin offered a three-day pause in hostilities against Ukraine in May, to coincide with Moscow’s celebrations of the end of the second world war. In a context … Read more
A conservative movement seeking to harness female fandoms and pop culture gossip is the new front in the hard right’s endless culture war Fun news from the Guardian’s “Everything is Awful” desk this week: the “womanosphere” cometh. The article heralds the arrival of “a crop of conservative personalities … convincing young women of a gender-essentialist … Read more
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, D-Mich., greeted President Donald Trump on the tarmac in Michigan before his speech to National Guard members on Tuesday, where she also spoke at the event without hiding her face. “Well, I hadn’t planned to speak, but on behalf of all the military men and women who serve our country and serve … Read more
Donal Trump celebrates 100 days in office with Michigan event, saying ‘nothing will stop me’ – key US politics stories from Tuesday 29 April at a glance Donald Trump has celebrated his 100th day in office with a campaign-style rally in Michigan and an attack on “communist radical left judges” for trying to seize his … Read more
During a rally in Michigan to mark his first 100 days in office, Trump mad the false claim that, ‘for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction’. In the latest nationwide poll, conducted from 17-21 April for the Associated Press … Read more
President Donald Trump campaigned for a second term on pledges to lower prices, create jobs and impose tough tariffs on imports, especially from China. Dubbing himself the “Tariff Man” last fall, he told an audience at the Economic Club of Chicago, “To me, the most beautiful word in the dictionary is tariff.” However, in his … Read more
