In today\u2019s newsletter: As political tensions rise abroad and economic pressures mount at home, \u200bD\u200bonald Trump faces a shifting landscape that is testing the loyalty of his \u200bM\u200baga supporters<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Good morning. Starting a war of choice that is rapidly spiralling out of control, poll ratings at a second-term low, and a cost of living crisis intensifying for millions.<\/p>\n
Any conventional US president would be in big trouble. But Donald Trump is not a conventional president, and normal rules do not seem to apply to him. More than a third of Americans continue to believe he is doing a good job despite the global chaos he has unleashed.<\/p>\n
UK politics <\/strong><\/em>| Keir Starmer was looking increasingly isolated over the Peter Mandelson scandal as the Guardian learned of concerns around the cabinet table<\/a>, a senior minister refused to say the dismissal of Olly Robbins was fair and several mandarins called for Robbins to be reinstated. One Labour MP called on Starmer to quit.<\/p>\n Middle East <\/strong><\/em>| Iranian forces seized two ships<\/a> in the strait of Hormuz as the US and Iran doubled down on imposing separate blockades of the shipping waterway.<\/p>\n West Bank<\/strong><\/em> | Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old schoolboy<\/a>, were killed in the occupied West Bank after Israeli settlers opened fire near a school, witnesses and local officials said. Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon killed a journalist<\/a> after rescuers were blocked from accessing the building where she was buried under rubble because of further Israeli fire, according to several witnesses.<\/p>\n UK news <\/strong><\/em>| Britain\u2019s high military dependence on the US is \u201cno longer tenable\u201d<\/a> and the UK has to become increasingly independent of the special relationship, a former Nato chief has said.<\/p>\n Palantir <\/strong><\/em>| The Metropolitan police has held talks with Palantir that could lead to the London force buying the US spy-tech company\u2019s AI technology<\/a> to automate intelligence analysis for criminal investigations.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today\u2019s newsletter: As political tensions rise abroad and economic pressures mount at home, \u200bD\u200bonald Trump faces a shifting landscape that is testing the loyalty of his \u200bM\u200baga supporters Good morning. Starting a war of choice that is rapidly spiralling out of control, poll ratings at a second-term low, and a cost of living crisis … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}