news2shortsUS president’s chief trade adviser is intellectual driving force behind global tariffs and trade war with China Elon Musk called him “dumber than a sack of bricks” but, in the raw contest for political power, Peter Navarro has outsmarted the billionaire. The tumult in global trade shows that for now it is the 75-year-old economist, … Read more
Concerns raised address would be inappropriate because of president’s comments about UK, Nato and Ukraine A number of MPs and peers have called for Donald Trump to be blocked from addressing parliament when he visits the UK. The US president has suggested Buckingham Palace is “setting a date for September” for him to come to … Read more
Faced with fading empires’ petulance, the global south must draw a red line under its relationship with them and forge new ties based on mutual respect As Donald Trump rains chaos down upon the US – dismantling the rule of law trading in rage-fuelled nationalism and bullying the rest of the world – his ideology … Read more
A perverse information ecosystem is being mined by big tech for profit, fooling the unwary and sending algorithms crazy There are two parallel image channels that dominate our daily visual consumption. In one, there are real pictures and footage of the world as it is: politics, sport, news and entertainment. In the other is AI … Read more
Hegseth used his personal phone to send information regarding U.S. military operations in Yemen to a Signal group chat that included his wife and brother, two sources told NBC News.
The EU, the world’s biggest single market, can reposition itself and become less reliant on exporting goods to the US and China This is why America first doesn’t have to mean Europe last. Europeans have had plenty to mope about since Donald Trump entered the White House not quite three months ago. The US president … Read more
WASHINGTON — An aide to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth published an op-ed Sunday in which he was highly critical of his former boss and suggested that President Donald Trump might soon remove him after weeks of turmoil, including leaked texts about airstrikes in Yemen and the abrupt firings of top officials.
President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to pull an additional $1 billion in federal funding from Harvard University amid his public battle with the institution, according to a report published Sunday. The Wall Street Journal reported that the $1 billion is related to the elite Massachusetts Ivy League school’s health research funding, according to sources … Read more
With estimated $55m price set to balloon by 125%, 737 Max returns to Seattle production hub still wearing the colours of Xiamen Airlines A Boeing jet intended for a Chinese airline landed back at the planemaker’s US production hub on Sunday, a victim of the tit-for-tat bilateral tariffs launched by Donald Trump. The 737 MAX, … Read more
Defence secretary reportedly sent the group flight schedules for strikes on Houthis; draft order calls for drastic restructure of state department – key US politics stories from 20 April Defence secretary Pete Hegseth is in the spotlight for a communications blunder in which he reportedly created his own Signal group chat that included his wife … Read more
