Nicola Jennings on the looming US tariff threat – cartoon
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Musk’s X and a Canadian man take action against Australian authorities for censoring his post
The Australian government has been taken to court by an internet personality known as “Billboard Chris,” who challenged the nation’s “eSafety” commission’s authority to geo-block a tweet criticizing the appointment of an Australian transgender activist to a World Health Organization board. Chris Elston, a Canadian national who often expresses his free speech through slogans and … Read more
White House correspondents’ dinner cancels anti-Trump comedian’s appearance
WHCA says it was dropping Amber Ruffin’s performance so the event’s ‘focus is not on the politics of division’ Comedy is off the menu at the annual White House correspondents’ dinner, a once convivial get-together for reporters to meet with federal governments officials that has become too fraught for light-heartedness amid the second Donald Trump … Read more
Trump admin’s ‘sloppy’ Signal leak put Democrats back on offense, Sen Warner says
The Trump administration’s Signal group chat leak was a “sloppy” move that put Democrats on offense for the first time since President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., said Sunday. Warner made the statement during an appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” telling host Shannon Bream that it is an insult to the American people … Read more
Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
Trump did not rule out the possibility of seeking a third term in the White House in an exclusive interview with NBC News.
‘It reminds you of a fascist state’: Smithsonian Institution braces for Trump rewrite of US history
Normally staid historians sound alarm at authoritarian grasping for control of the premier US museum complex In a brightly lit gallery, they see the 66m-year-old skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus rex. In a darkened room, they study the flag that inspired Francis Scott Key to write the national anthem. In a vast aviation hanger, they behold … Read more
‘It’s very much relevant today’: the one-woman show on Charlottesville
Priyanka Shetty combines personal and political in #Charlottesville, a play that explores the deadly 2017 white supremacist rally She had moved from India to live the American dream. Priyanka Shetty came to study acting at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, a liberal place of clipped lawns and classical architecture rated in one survey as … Read more
Why Trump’s brutal crackdown on free speech is unprecedented in the US
Experts says rounding up protesters and taking control from universities goes beyond McCarthy’s witch-hunts Donald Trump campaigned on the promise that he would crack down against pro-Palestinian student protesters. Over the past few weeks, he has forcefully followed through. Continue reading…
Trump discusses tariff impact on car prices, Signal group chat leak
Meet the Press moderator Kristen Welker joins Sunday TODAY’s Willie Geist to discuss her phone conversation with President Donald Trump about his tariff’s impact on the price of cars, his stance on the Signal group chat leak if there will be accountability for it.
Elon Musk offers giveaway in Wisconsin Supreme Court election
Elon Musk will be in Wisconsin to hold a rally for Republican candidate Brad Schimel in a state Supreme Court election that could have a big impact on the next presidential race in the battleground state. Musk’s super PAC has offered $100 to Wisconsin voters to sign a petition to oppose so-called activist judges. NBC’s … Read more