In today\u2019s newsletter: What an unprecedented scheme reveals about an increasingly uninhibited leadership \u2013 and what it might mean for American democracy<\/p>\n
Good morning. It has been two weeks since details of a settlement in the case of Trump v the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) first emerged. An out-of-court agreement with the US president created a $1.8bn fund for the Trump administration to dish out at its discretion. In response, the outrage has been unrelenting.<\/p>\n
Critics argue the result stinks of cronyism and corruption, effectively a \u201cscheme for the Trumps<\/a> to reward political friends while indirectly benefiting the family\u201d. There has been rare pushback from within Trump\u2019s own party: more than a dozen Republican senators have reportedly urged the administration to change course. YouGov polling found a majority of Democrats and Republicans oppose the fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n UK politics <\/strong><\/em>| A trove of government documents about Peter Mandelson contains no record of any measures taken to mitigate serious security concerns over his appointment as Washington ambassador, the Guardian has learned<\/a>.<\/p>\n Health news <\/strong><\/em>| A daily pill can double survival time in patients with the world\u2019s deadliest cancer, according to the results of a clinical trial that experts are saying is a \u201cgamechanger\u201d and one of the biggest breakthroughs<\/a> in decades.<\/p>\n Lebanon <\/strong><\/em>| European leaders have condemned Israel\u2019s expanding incursion into Lebanon<\/a>, after its military captured the medieval Beaufort castle and Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to push even deeper into the country.<\/p>\n Employment <\/strong><\/em>| An Indian citizen who came to the UK to work as a care worker through the post-Brexit visa scheme has been awarded nearly \u00a330,000<\/a>, because his employer failed to give him a single day of work for a year.<\/p>\n UK news <\/strong><\/em>| Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams was forced to sit in silence on stage at an event at Hay festival, after lawyers advised her<\/a> not to speak because of ongoing legal action brought by Meta.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In today\u2019s newsletter: What an unprecedented scheme reveals about an increasingly uninhibited leadership \u2013 and what it might mean for American democracy Good morning. It has been two weeks since details of a settlement in the case of Trump v the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) first emerged. An out-of-court agreement with the US president created … 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-74269","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\/74269","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=74269"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74269\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}