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AI Summary
- Meta has reportedly struck a colossal $60 billion chip deal with AMD, signaling a significant investment in AI infrastructure, even as market jitters surrounding AI's potential doomsday scenarios persist.
- The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has marked its fourth anniversary, with President Zelenskyy continuing to urge international support and notably inviting former President Trump to visit the war-torn nation.
- Mexican security forces have reportedly killed drug cartel kingpin 'El Mencho,' a move that has sparked violent repercussions and highlighted the persistent challenges of cartel violence in the region.
- Amidst escalating geopolitical tensions, the US State Department has accused China of 'massively' expanding its nuclear arsenal, raising concerns about a potential new arms race.
- The demand for electrified supercars appears to be significantly lower than anticipated, with Lamborghini's EV Lanzador facing a market where demand for such vehicles is described as 'close to zero'.
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Despite Rise In December, US Home Prices Saw Weakest Full-Year Gain Since 2011
42 minutes ago
by Tyler Durden
Despite Rise In December, US Home Prices Saw Weakest Full-Year Gain Since 2011 For the fifth straight month, US home prices across its 20 largest cities rose in December (according to the admittedly lagged and smoothed Case-Shiller data released today). The 0.47% MoM rise is down very mopdestly from the upwardly revised +0.53% MoM in November Source: Bloomberg However, as S&P Cotality reports, "National home prices grew just 1.3% for the year - the weakest full-year gain since 2011." ...but, declining mortgage rates suggest the rebound in aggregate prices could be about to explode... Source: Bloomberg Is this what President Trump wants to see? Flat prices and
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Jittery Futures Erase Gains Amid AI Doomsday Fears
an hour ago
by Tyler Durden
Jittery Futures Erase Gains Amid AI Doomsday Fears A short rebound in stocks fizzled after Monday's drop, as worries about the disruptive impact of artificial intelligence continued to unsettle markets which digested yesterday’s AI scare, and await today’s Claude / Anthropic presentation, while preparing for tonight’s State of the Union address (“SOTU”). Some have suggested that Trump may attack power generation risks during SOTU as he deals with affordability.As of 8:00am ET, S&P 500 futures traded unchanged, erasing an earlier 0.3% gain. The benchmark fell 1% in the previous session following a sharp drop in dealer gamma and a report that rehashes well-known
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Early Tax Refunds Are Showing A 14% Increase, IRS Says
an hour ago
by Tyler Durden
Early Tax Refunds Are Showing A 14% Increase, IRS Says Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times, The average tax refund for American taxpayers has increased on a year-over-year basis, the IRS said in a Feb. 20 update. The average refund amount increased 14.2 percent in 2026 to $2,476 as of Feb. 13, according to the agency. Last year, the average refund for the same time period was $2,169. Meanwhile, the average direct deposit refund amount for taxpayers is up 13.1 percent year over year, from $2,252 in 2025 to $2,548 in 2026. The IRS added that the total number of tax returns that
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Jane Street Sued For Crypto Insider Trading That Accelerated Terraform Collapse
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Jane Street Sued For Crypto Insider Trading That Accelerated Terraform Collapse For years - literally - we have been pounding the table and pointing out market rigging and manipulation irregularities in the crypto markets which, for reasons of our own, we attributed to one of the world's foremost HFT shops and most profitable "market makers" in the world (if not India), Jane Street. Below is an example from 2023, and here are hundreds of others... > Jane Street is going to frontrun so many bitcoin ETF orders, SBF would have made trillionaire if he had only stayed there. And it would have
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Moscow Police Targeted In Deadly Car Bombing On 4th Anniversary Of Russian Invasion
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Moscow Police Targeted In Deadly Car Bombing On 4th Anniversary Of Russian Invasion There's been another killing by explosive device in the heart of Moscow - this time coming on the fourth anniversary of the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. The Russian Interior Ministry has confirmed that a culprit detonated powerful bomb beside a police patrol car in central Moscow early Tuesday, near a public transport hub, which killed one officer and wounded two more. Anadolu/Getty Images Based on the details, the attack was clearly targeting the police officers, as the attacker approached their car before quickly setting off the bomb. The patrol car was badly
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AMD Shares Soar After Meta Chip Deal Worth More Than $100 Billion
2 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
AMD Shares Soar After Meta Chip Deal Worth More Than $100 Billion Shares of Advanced Micro Devices surged the most in five months in premarket trading, after Meta disclosed a multi-year deal to deploy up to 6 gigawatts of AMD Instinct GPUs to power its next-generation AI data centers. Meta will begin deploying these AMD chips in the second half of 2026. The first phase will support the deployment of 1 gigawatt. AMD stated: > This agreement expands on the companies' existing strategic partnership and aligns roadmaps across silicon, systems, and software to deliver AI platforms purpose-built for Meta's workloads. The first deployment will
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Cartel Kingpin "El Mencho" Dead. Here's A Shortlist Of Possible Successors
3 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Cartel Kingpin "El Mencho" Dead. Here's A Shortlist Of Possible Successors Mexico's most wanted cartel boss was killed Sunday in a Mexican military operation reportedly supported by U.S. intelligence; however, the emergence of potential successors indicates the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) is not at the end of its road, only suggesting the decapitation strike is more likely to drive short-term fragmentation and retaliatory or spillover risks. Local outlet Político MX reports that following the Sunday killing of CJNG leader Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera Cervantes in the military operation, potential successors have already emerged. This signals heightened leadership transition risk and near-term
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Lamborghini EV Lanzador Bites The Dust As Electrified Supercar Demand Hits "Close To Zero"
3 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Lamborghini EV Lanzador Bites The Dust As Electrified Supercar Demand Hits "Close To Zero" Big legacy U.S. and European automakers are frantically dialing back their electric vehicle bets, scaling back once-hyped roadmaps to full electrification as demand for these vehicles implodes. The latest automaker to reverse course is not a mass-market sedan or SUV maker, but a luxury supercar brand: Lamborghini. CEO Stephan Winkelmann told the UK's The Sunday Times that he has ended plans to build EVs, saying customers are not seeking quiet supercars and that demand has collapsed. Winkelmann said that EV development risked becoming "an expensive hobby" for the car company.
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Trump's Board Of Peace Mulling Stablecoin For Gaza Efforts: FT
3 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Trump's Board Of Peace Mulling Stablecoin For Gaza Efforts: FT Authored by Turner Wright via CoinTelegraph.com, The Board of Peace established by US President Donald Trump, which requires a $1 billion contribution for membership, is reportedly exploring a stablecoin for use in rebuilding Gaza's economy following two years of war triggered by a Hamas terror attack in October 2023. According to a Monday Financial Times report, the board is in the preliminary stages of discussing whether a stablecoin could be used to help rebuild Gaza’s economy. A person familiar with the project reportedly said the stablecoin would not be a meme coin or a replacement
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80% Of The World's Population Will Use Social Media By 2028
4 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
80% Of The World's Population Will Use Social Media By 2028 Launched in 2004 as an experiment at Harvard, Facebook is often regarded as the defining social media platform of its era, the one that brought such platforms into the mainstream. Facebook reached one million users just ten months after its launch; it took Mark Zuckerberg's social network around eight years to reach one billion users. That milestone was reached in October 2012; by that point, many other social media platforms had become household names, including Twitter (launched in 2006) and Instagram (launched in 2010). Just over 20 years after Facebook first took the internet by storm, social media use is almost
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'Out Of Africa': Beijing Slashes Investment Up To 85%
5 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
'Out Of Africa': Beijing Slashes Investment Up To 85% Authored by James Gorrie via The Epoch Times, For more than a decade, China’s footprint across Africa has expanded at a phenomenal pace. Railways in Kenya, ports in Tanzania, energy projects across sub-Saharan Africa, and militarized infrastructure in various places have meant billions in state-backed loans. For decades, Beijing has positioned itself as Africa’s largest trading partner and its most aggressive infrastructure financier. But something has changed. In some sectors, such as energy lending by Chinese development finance institutions, investment levels have fallen by as much as 85 percent from their peak years. That’s not a rounding error,
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Critical Part Of Hungary & Slovakia's Russian Oil Flows Has Just Been Blown Up
6 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Critical Part Of Hungary & Slovakia's Russian Oil Flows Has Just Been Blown Up Ukraine's long-range drone campaign has reportedly once again struck at the heart of Russia's energy artery, igniting a fire at a key Transneft oil pumping station in the republic of Tatarstan early Monday. Regional officials confirmed the incident after local media and Telegram channels first reported explosions near the strategic facility, with authorities announcing: "as a result of falling drone debris, a local fire broke out in an industrial zone." Source: Moscow Times/@exilenova_plus No casualties resulted from the blasts which took place around 4am at the Kaleykino pumping station. A fire ensued
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Female British Cop Defends Freedom Of Speech In "Muslim Area" Of London
6 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Female British Cop Defends Freedom Of Speech In "Muslim Area" Of London Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Metropolitan Police has so far not commented on the viral video of a female police officer defending freedom of speech surrounded by a crowd of angry Muslim men in Whitechapel but it has questions to answer. The Mail ran the video yesterday. > This is fundamentally a Christian country. We will not tolerate “Muslim areas”. > > Credit to this brave police officer. She was defending a Christian’s right to free speech after being told it was a Muslim area. pic.twitter.com/dQChwP3Ecz > > — Sarah Pochin MP (@SarahForRuncorn) February 23, 2026 > 🚨🇬🇧
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These Are The World's 10 Deadliest Viruses
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by Tyler Durden
These Are The World's 10 Deadliest Viruses Some viruses infect millions but kill relatively few. Others spread less widely yet prove far more lethal once contracted. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Bruno Venditti, ranks 10 of the world’s deadliest viruses by case fatality rate: the percentage of infected people who die from the disease. Rabies tops the list, with a fatality rate approaching 100% once symptoms appear. The data for this visualization comes from various sources such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the BC Centre for Disease Control, the Australian Government, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Reuters, and the UK Government. RABIES: ALMOST UNIVERSALLY FATAL The virus kills
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Despite Deportation Order Dating Back 23 Years, Bosnian Criminal Migrant Gets €7,250 Every Month In Welfare From German Taxpayers
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by Tyler Durden
Despite Deportation Order Dating Back 23 Years, Bosnian Criminal Migrant Gets €7,250 Every Month In Welfare From German Taxpayers Via Remix News, A Bosnian national, identified as Huso B., is being labeled one of the worst cases of a foreigner taking advantage of Germany’s generous welfare system. The man, who has numerous criminal offenses on his record, remains in Germany despite being under a mandatory order to leave the country for 23 years. Remarkably, the German justice system failed to find him and “suspended” criminal proceedings against him, while Bild newspaper then went on to find him with ease. Despite Huso B. overstaying his welcome
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Escobar: The Discombobulated West
10 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Escobar: The Discombobulated West Authored by Pepe Escobar, Neo-Caligula – a.k.a. The Undisputed Tariff Champion of the World – seems to be surprised that Iran has not capitulated. No wonder. No clueless sycophant amongst his astonishingly mediocre inner circle is intellectually equipped to explain to neo-Caligula, in soundbites, the basics of Shi’ism. It gets worse. What’s actually on the imperial table is the return of Total War as a political cover up, benefitting a sizable chunk of the massively corrupt/perverse Anglo-American/Atlanticist oligarchy. The Geneva “negotiations” have been a failure. War on Russia was the leitmotif of the Munich Security Conference. The “massive armada” concentrated not far
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Is Privacy Entirely Gone?
11 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Is Privacy Entirely Gone? Authored by Jeffrey A. Tucker via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), If you watch any movie from the 1940s in the film noir genre, you will see a recurring theme. Someone does something bad but runs away to another state. He might put on a disguise. People try to find him but cannot. He checks in and out of hotels under an assumed name. The heroic detective works to put together clues to connect the dots. Urban Tech Imagery/Shutterstock So on it goes in many variations of this theme, all of which turn on technological limitations. The police did not
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Who Believes In Aliens, Bigfoot, & The Chupacabra?
12 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Who Believes In Aliens, Bigfoot, & The Chupacabra? Belief in the unknown, whether extraterrestrials or legendary creatures, remains surprisingly common in America. The visualization below, created by Visual Capitalist's Julie Peasley using data from YouGov, explores how likely U.S. adults think it is that aliens, Bigfoot, and the chupacabra exist. Here’s how Americans responded when asked how likely each being exists, according to YouGov: Aliens clearly stand apart. A majority (56%) say extraterrestrials definitely or probably exist, more than double the share who believe in Bigfoot, and more than triple belief in the chupacabra. ALIENS: FROM FRINGE TO MAINSTREAM? Interest in extraterrestrial life has grown steadily, fueled by government disclosures
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Necessary Evil: RFK Jr. Defends Trump's Glyphosate Order
12 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Necessary Evil: RFK Jr. Defends Trump's Glyphosate Order Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Feb. 22 said that glyphosate is poisonous but necessary as he backed President Donald Trump’s recent order designating the production of the herbicide as critical to national security. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (L) speaks at the White House on Jan. 29, 2026. Samuel Corum/Getty Images In a lengthy post on social media, Kennedy said that pesticides and herbicides are toxic. “When we apply them across millions of acres and allow them into our food system, we put Americans
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Rogue AI Just Yeeted $250,000 Into the Void
13 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
Rogue AI Just Yeeted $250,000 Into the Void Solana’s memecoin casino has seen its fair share of rug pulls, pump-and-dumps, and surrealist performance art. But this weekend, it got something new: an AI agent that appears to have fumbled a quarter-million dollars in tokens while trying to tip a stranger 4 SOL. The agent, dubbed Lobstar Wilde, was built by Nik Pash - an OpenAI employee and former head of AI at the coding agent startup Cline (fired for saying 'imagine the smell' regarding Indians). On Thursday, Pash posted on X that he had given his bot a crypto wallet loaded with
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West Virginia Introduces Bill To Sell Machine Guns To American Citizens
13 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
West Virginia Introduces Bill To Sell Machine Guns To American Citizens Submitted by Gun Owners of America, State Legislators in West Virginia have just introduced a bill, authored by Gun Owners of America, that would authorize the State to sell machineguns to citizens. Currently, newly manufactured machineguns are banned for civilian ownership thanks to an amendment slipped into the 1986 Firearm Owners Protection Act. Known as the “Hughes Amendment”—named for Representative William J. Hughes, a Democrat from New Jersey—this amendment banned all civilian ownership of machineguns made after May 19, 1986. While machineguns made and registered prior to the ban date can still be transferred,
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The DNC Covered Up Its 2024 Election Autopsy, And Now We Know Why
13 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
The DNC Covered Up Its 2024 Election Autopsy, And Now We Know Why After the 2024 presidential election, the Democratic National Committee conducted an autopsy of the party’s defeat and intended to release it. It pledged an honest accounting of how Donald Trump reclaimed the White House. It assured its own officials, strategists, and donor class that a thorough post-mortem was coming. However, after the autopsy was complete, the DNC clammed up and kept it under wraps. There was something in the report they didn’t want the public to see, and Democrats weren’t happy about it. The official explanation for suppressing the report is that
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Student ICE Protests Lead To Lockdowns, Debate Over Discipline In Pennsylvania Schools
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by Tyler Durden
Student ICE Protests Lead To Lockdowns, Debate Over Discipline In Pennsylvania Schools Authored by Janice Hisle via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), School officials ordered two eastern Pennsylvania schools into lockdown on Feb. 20, while dozens of students left the schools and became unruly. The move came after officials directed the students to cancel their planned protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations. High school students gather for an anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protest outside the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul on Jan. 14, 2026. Octavio Jonees/AFP via Getty Images Quakertown High School and Quakertown Elementary School, about 50 miles north of Philadelphia, were
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AI Beats Human Research Teams At Crunching Medical Data
14 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
AI Beats Human Research Teams At Crunching Medical Data Whether you think AI is on the cusp of replacing millions of jobs, or an overblown Google search designed to agree with you, one thing is sure: people whose job it is to analyze complex medical data might want to pay attention... For years, biomedical research has had a problem: too much data, not enough people who know how to wrangle it - or simply that it took months to do so. Modern health studies generate oceans of molecular information - gene expression, DNA methylation, microbiome profiles. Turning that into useful predictions about disease risk or
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President Trump 'Curious' Why Iran Hasn't 'Capitulated'
15 hours ago
by Tyler Durden
President Trump 'Curious' Why Iran Hasn't 'Capitulated' Authored by Dave DeCamp via AntiWar.com, US envoy Steve Witkoff said in an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday that President Trump was "curious" that Iran hasn't "capitulated" to US demands due to the major US military buildup in the Middle East and threats of war. "I don’t want to use the word frustrated because [Trump] understands he has plenty of alternatives, but he’s curious, he’s curious as to why they haven’t, I don’t want to use the word capitulated, but why they haven’t capitulated," Witkoff told Fox News host Lara Trump, the president’s daughter-in-law. West
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Royal Artillery under fire after denying access to looted Asante treasure
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by Dalya Alberge
Military, UK news, Ghana, Africa, World news, Europe, Museums, Heritage, Colonialism‘Extraordinary’ golden lamb’s head pillaged in 1874 from what is now Ghana remains hidden in officers’ mess The Royal Artillery is facing criticism after it emerged they are refusing public access to an “extraordinary object” looted by the British army in the 19th century from the Asante people in modern-day Ghana. The glistening golden ram’s head would seemingly be worthy of any museum, but it remains hidden within the regiment’s mess at Larkhill in Wiltshire. Continue reading...
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Robert Mugabe’s son charged with attempted murder over Johannesburg shooting
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by Rachel Savage in Johannesburg
Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, Africa, World news, South AfricaBellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, known for lavish lifestyle, also accused of theft and being illegal immigrant after man allegedly shot in back A son of the late Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe has been charged with attempted murder after a 23-year-old man was allegedly shot in the back on 19 February in an upmarket area of Johannesburg. Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, 28, appeared in court on Monday for a brief hearing alongside co-accused Tobias Mugabe Matonhodze. Mugabe’s lawyer Sinenhlanhla Mnguni declined to comment when asked by reporters whether the two men were related. Mnguni said he would request bail for his clients at the next
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RSF siege of El Fasher in Sudan has ‘hallmarks of genocide’, UN mission finds
5 days ago
by Eromo Egbejule and agencies
Sudan, Africa, Middle East and north Africa, World news, Chad, United Nations, United Arab EmiratesReport details harrowing 18-month occupation of North Darfur capital, showing destruction aimed at ethnic communities The siege and capture of the Sudanese city of El Fasher by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces group last October bore “the hallmarks of genocide”, a UN-mandated fact-finding mission has said. In a report detailing the harrowing 18-month occupation of the capital of North Darfur, investigators concluded that the RSF and allied militias deliberately inflicted conditions calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the Zaghawa and Fur ethnic communities. Continue reading...
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More than 1,000 Kenyans lured to fight for Russia in Ukraine war, report says
5 days ago
by Carlos Mureithi in Nairobi and Rachel Savage in Johannesburg
Kenya, Ukraine, Russia, Africa, Europe, World newsIntelligence findings read to parliament say ‘rogue’ agencies and individuals recruiting Kenyan nationals to frontline More than 1,000 Kenyans have been lured to fight for Russia in its war with Ukraine, according to an intelligence report to the Kenyan parliament that highlights the scale of a Russian operation taking African men to the frontline. The majority leader of Kenya’s national assembly, Kimani Ichung’wah, said “rogue recruitment agencies and individuals in Kenya” were continuing to send Kenyan nationals to fight in the conflict, as he read MPs the summary of an investigation by Kenya’s National Intelligence Service. Continue reading...
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Countries that do not embrace AI could be left behind, says OpenAI’s George Osborne
6 days ago
by Robert Booth in Delhi
George Osborne, OpenAI, AI (artificial intelligence), Global economy, Technology, Economics, Trump administration, India, Benin, Rwanda, Business, European Union, Africa, UK newsWithout AI you will be a ‘weaker and poorer nation’, says former UK chancellor two months into job at US firm The former chancellor George Osborne has said countries that do not embrace the kind of powerful AI systems made by his new employer, OpenAI, risk “Fomo” and could be left weaker and poorer. Osborne, who is two months into a job as head of the $500bn San Francisco AI company’s “for countries” programme, told leaders gathered for the AI Impact summit in Delhi: “Don’t be left behind.” He said that without AI rollouts they could end up with a workforce “less
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Mexican drug cartel boss ‘El Mencho’ tracked through romantic partner
14 hours ago
by Thomas Graham in Tijuana, Oliver Holmes and Tom Phillips
Mexico, Drugs trade, Americas, Donald Trump, US foreign policy, World news, US newsKilling of Jalisco New Generation Cartel leader sparks wave of violence across western Mexico * Analysis: Mexico faces uphill battle to appease kingpin Trump * Who was El Mencho? Mexican authorities tracked down and killed “El Mencho”, one of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, by following a romantic partner to his safe house near a picturesque mountain town, the country’s defence secretary has revealed. In a press conference, officials provided the first details about the operation that led to the death of the leader of Mexico’s most powerful organised crime group, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). Continue reading...
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Canada seeks answers from OpenAI for failing to alert police after suspending school shooter’s account
16 hours ago
by Leyland Cecco in Toronto
Tumbler Ridge school shooting, OpenAI, Canada, ChatGPT, Technology, Americas, World newsCompany had suspended account of Tumbler Ridge shooter in June 2025 over ‘furtherance of violent activities’ Canada’s artificial intelligence minister says he has summoned representatives from the technology company OpenAI after the company declined to alert police after suspending the account of a user who became the perpetrator of one of the country’s worst-ever school shootings. Evan Solomon says he is “deeply disturbed” by reports that the company, which operates the popular ChatGPT chatbot, suspended the account of Jesse Van Rootselaar over the “furtherance of violent activities” in June 2025 but did not reach out to Canadian law enforcement. Continue reading...
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Mexico faces uphill battle to appease kingpin Trump after cartel boss’s killing
19 hours ago
by Oscar Lopezin Mexico City
Mexico, Donald Trump, Claudia Sheinbaum, Americas, World news, Drugs, Drugs policy, GangsTrump tells Mexico to ‘step up’ effort to combat cartels even after military operation kills drug lord known as ‘El Mencho’ * Violence in Mexico after military kills notorious drug cartel boss – a visual guide With schools still closed, flights cancelled and the charred carcasses of buses smouldering on streets across the country, Mexico was still reeling from the cartel backlash prompted by the killing of cartel kingpin Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, also known as “El Mencho”. Defense minister, Ricardo Trevilla Trejo, was moved almost to tears on Monday as he offered his condolences to the families of soldiers felled in the
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Who was El Mencho, the former police officer who co-founded an ultraviolent cartel in Mexico?
a day ago
by Staff and agencies
Mexico, Americas, World news, Joaquín 'El Chapo' Guzmán, Drugs tradeDrug lord who was killed by Mexican special forces on Sunday led a cartel known for aggression and military-style arsenal * Violence erupts after Mexican security forces kill drug cartel boss ‘El Mencho’ The drug lord “El Mencho”, who was killed on Sunday by Mexican special forces, was the co-founder and leader of a gang that in recent years had become the country’s most powerful criminal organisation: the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). While less internationally famous than the Sinaloa cartel of the now imprisoned Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the CJNG is a household name in Mexico, where it is known for
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Mexican security forces kill drug cartel boss ‘El Mencho’
2 days ago
by Tom Phillips Latin America correspondent and Analy Nuño in Mexico City
Mexico, Drugs, Americas, Society, World newsDeath of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, one of world’s most wanted drug traffickers, sets off wave of disorder across several Mexican states * Who was El Mencho, the former police officer who co-founded an ultraviolent cartel in Mexico? One of the world’s most wanted drug traffickers, the Mexican cartel boss known as “El Mencho”, has been killed by security forces, Mexico’s defence ministry has confirmed. The operation set off a wave of violence, with torched cars and gunmen blocking highways in more than half a dozen states. The drug lord, whose real name is Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, was killed on Sunday in
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Destitute survivors of south-east Asia’s cyberscam farms an ‘international crisis’
4 hours ago
by Rebecca Root
Global development, Cybercrime, Organised crime, Human trafficking, Internet, Cambodia, Myanmar, Asia Pacific, South and central Asia, World news, TechnologyNot enough support for freed victims, say aid agencies, with growing numbers sleeping on the streets, unable to travel home without passports or money Charities and aid workers have called for urgent international government support for victims of south-east Asia’s deadly scam compounds, following a damning report by Amnesty International. The numbers of survivors of cyberscam “farms” left destitute and abandoned on the city streets of Cambodia and Myanmar is an “international crisis”, according to the research published in January. Continue reading...
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BTS comeback show sells out immediately as 260,000 fans set to descend on Seoul
6 hours ago
by Raphael Rashid in Seoul
BTS, South Korea, K-pop, World news, Asia PacificBooking system freezes and screens crash amid rush of fans trying to secure tickets to 21 March free concert Tickets for BTS’s comeback concert in central Seoul were snapped up almost immediately on Monday night, with authorities expecting an estimated 260,000 fans to descend for the K-pop group’s first full performance in nearly four years. At one point, more than 100,000 people flooded the booking website when sales opened at 8pm for the free concert at Gwanghwamun square on 21 March, causing screens to crash and booking systems to freeze. Continue reading...
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US accuses China of ‘massively’ expanding nuclear arsenal amid fears of new arms race
14 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
China, US foreign policy, Asia Pacific, US news, Nuclear weaponsChina has opposed the ‘smearing of its nuclear policy’ while insisting Beijing would not ‘engage in any nuclear arms race’ The US has accused China of dramatically expanding its nuclear arsenal, while doubling down on claims that Beijing had conducted secret nuclear tests. Washington said the lapsing of New Start – the last treaty between top nuclear powers the US and Russia – earlier this month presented the possibility of striking a “better agreement” that included Beijing. Continue reading...
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Duterte at ‘very heart’ of murderous drug crackdowns in Philippines, ICC told
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by Rebecca Ratcliffe South-east Asia correspondent
Rodrigo Duterte, Philippines, International criminal court, Law, Asia Pacific, World newsEx-president, accused of crimes against humanity, selected targets and promised immunity for death squad members, prosecutor says Rodrigo Duterte, the former president of the Philippines, was “at the very heart” of brutal anti-drugs campaigns that led to the killing of thousands of people, prosecutors at the international criminal court (ICC) have argued, as they called for charges against him to proceed to trial. Duterte, 80, who was arrested in Manila last year and flown to The Hague, is facing three counts of crimes against humanity over campaigns against drug users and dealers during his presidency, and his earlier tenure as mayor of
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The tragedy of Punch the monkey: why do mother animals abandon their offspring?
a day ago
by Maya Yang
Japan, Animals, Asia Pacific, World newsFootage of Punch, a seven-month-old Japanese macaque, has gone viral around the world after he was rejected by his mother and formed a bond with a soft toy A baby monkey in Japan has captured hearts around the world after videos of him being bullied by other monkeys and rejected by his mother went viral last week. Punch, a Japanese macaque, was born last July at Ichikawa zoo. He has drawn international attention after zookeepers gave him a stuffed orangutan toy after he was abandoned by his mother. Continue reading...
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NT environmentalists ‘gobsmacked’ at federal green light to bulldoze nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna
an hour ago
by Lisa Cox Environment and climate correspondent
Northern Territory, Australia news, Environment, Australian politics, Endangered habitats, Endangered species, Conservation, WildlifeDaly River region is home to threatened species such as the ghost bat, Gouldian finch, pig-nosed turtle and red goshawk * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The environment minister, Murray Watt, has given the green light for the bulldozing of nearly 3,000 hectares of tropical savanna in the Northern Territory without an assessment under Australia’s nature laws. Top End Pastoral Company’s development would clear 2,723 hectares of woodland – an area 10 times the size of Sydney’s CBD – on Claravale farm and station in the Daly River region for crops, including sorghum and cotton. Continue reading...
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Ban under-16s from riding ebikes and e-scooters then require a driver’s licence, Queensland inquiry to recommend
an hour ago
by Andrew Messenger
Queensland politics, Transport, Queensland, Australia newsExclusive: State parliament’s inquiry will propose a crackdown amid concerns over injuries and deaths * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Children should be banned from riding ebikes and e-scooters until they turn 16 and then require a driver’s licence to use one, a Queensland parliamentary inquiry will recommend. The state parliament’s inquiry into e-mobility safety and use is expected to finish its report this week, more than a month early. Continue reading...
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Guardian Essential poll: more than half of Australians open to voting for One Nation despite Hanson’s Muslim comments
an hour ago
by Josh Butler
One Nation, Essential poll, Australia news, Australian politics, Gina Rinehart, Angus Taylor, Sussan Ley, Pauline HansonA quarter of all respondents say they would ‘definitely’ back the rightwing populist party at the next election while a third say they’re ‘open’ to it * Pauline Hanson’s populism is a front. But there are lessons for progressives in One Nation’s surging popularity | Peter Lewis * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Nearly 60% of Australians say they’d be open to voting for One Nation at the next federal election, with nearly half of those currently backing Labor saying they’d consider backing Pauline Hanson, ringing alarm bells for both the government and Coalition about
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In 2022, Labor MPs urged compassion for Australian women and children stuck in Syria. Now Albanese has only contempt | Dan Jervis-Bardy
an hour ago
by Dan Jervis-Bardy
Australian immigration and asylum, Australian politics, Syria, Australia newsThe government’s drastically changed rhetoric about its legal obligations to Australian citizens is a symptom of 2026’s ugly politics * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Just after question time on 23 November 2022, the federal parliament debated a motion relating to the repatriation of four Australian women and 13 children who had been stuck in a Syrian detention camp since the fall of Islamic State three years prior. One after another Labor MPs argued with passion, clarity and logic about why it was not just acceptable, but necessary and morally right, for the federal government to
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Trump’s new global tariffs kick in at 10%; Meta strikes $60bn chip deal with AMD - business live
2 hours ago
by Lauren Almeida
Business, Stock markets, FTSE, Tariffs, US news, UK news, World news, Australia newsRolling coverage of the latest economic and financial news While many exporters around the world cheered when the supreme court ruled against Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs last week, the unintended consequence could be that the trade war escalates further, says Neil Wilson at the broker Saxo Markets. Trump warned countries not to ‘play games’ and threatened ‘a much higher tariff’ than they had agreed to...the unintended consequence of the Supreme Court ruling could be an escalatory trade war that markets hadn’t anticipated. Or as Trump put it the Supreme Court had ‘unwittingly’ handed him ‘far more powers and strength’ to levy fresh tariffs
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Your Russia-Ukraine war questions answered as Europe marks four years since the full-scale invasion - live
38 minutes ago
by Jakub Krupa and Shaun Walker
Ukraine, Russia, Europe, World news, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladimir PutinCentral and eastern Europe correspondent Shaun Walker joins Jakub Krupa to answer readers’ questions about four years of war, and where it’s heading Zelenskyy says “we must be just as determined and strong as we were when the invasion began,” as “the threat hasn’t become smaller.” He says Europe can only respond to this war working together with the US, even as he remarks it “is not an easy task to maintain transatlantic unity and cooperation in the current conditions.” “So there must be no place in the free world for Russian oil, for Russian tankers, Russian banks, Russian sanctions …, schemes, or
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Zelenskyy urges Trump to visit Ukraine in speech marking invasion anniversary
an hour ago
by Luke Harding in Kyiv
Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, US news, Europe, World newsLeader says Vladimir Putin has not achieved his goals and visit by Trump might make clear ‘who the aggressor is’ * Europe live – latest updates Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to Donald Trump to visit Kyiv, in a video address on the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion, and said Ukraine would not betray its people in any negotiations with Russia. Zelenskyy said Putin had not achieved his original war goals or “broken the Ukrainian people”. “He has not won this war,” he said. “We have preserved Ukraine, and we will do everything to achieve peace. And to ensure justice.” Continue reading...
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Italian ministers accused of ‘serious blunder’ as police officer arrested for murder
an hour ago
by Angela Giuffrida in Rome
Italy, Giorgia Meloni, World news, EuropeMeloni government had claimed case showed why officers using weapons in self-defence needed more protection The arrest of an Italian police officer on suspicion of murder over the fatal shooting of a Moroccan man has prompted a row after the opposition accused Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government of exploiting the case for political ends. Abderrahim Mansouri, 28, was shot in the head by Carmelo Cinturrino, assistant chief of Mecenate police station, during a police drugs patrol in the Rogoredo area of Milan in late January. Cinturrino originally said he had acted in self-defence after Mansouri pulled a gun on him. Continue reading...
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Russia opens criminal case into Telegram founder Pavel Durov
2 hours ago
by Pjotr Sauer
Russia, Pavel Durov, Telegram, Freedom of speech, Media, Technology, Apps, EuropeClaim of ‘abetting terrorist activities’ comes as Kremlin attempts to steer users on to state-controlled app Russia has launched a criminal investigation into the Telegram founder, Pavel Durov, on suspicion of “abetting terrorist activities”, further escalating the Kremlin’s standoff with the widely used messaging app. The state newspaper Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on Tuesday that a case had been opened “based on materials from Russia’s federal security service”, which accused the app of being compromised by western and Ukrainian intelligence. Continue reading...
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New edition of Ferrara bible shows how persecuted Jews kept faith alive in Spanish
4 hours ago
by Sam Jones in Madrid
Judaism, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Religion, Books, Europe, World news, CultureExiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had fled to Italy translated Hebrew bible into their common language In 1553, a community of exiled Spanish and Portuguese Jews who had found refuge and patronage in the northern Italian city of Ferrara did something that would have been unthinkable, and very possibly fatal, in their former homelands. They printed their own Hebrew bible in Spanish. Continue reading...
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Australian women held in Syrian camp say they would accept children returning home separately
10 hours ago
by William Christou and Baderkhan Ahmad in al-Roj, and Ben Doherty in Sydney
Australia news, Syria, Middle East and north Africa, Islamic State, Australian citizenship, Children, Australian politics, Australian security and counter-terrorismExclusive: Some of the 11 mothers detained in Kurdish-controlled al-Roj camp say they want Australian government to repatriate children at any cost * Families in convoy from Syrian camp warned they would be attacked unless they turned around * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australian women detained in north-east Syria over ties to Islamic State fighters said they would accept separation from their children if it meant the children could return to Australia. Some of the 11 women held in Kurdish-controlled al-Roj camp said on Monday
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Australian families in convoy from Syrian camp warned they would be attacked unless they turned around
16 hours ago
by William Christou and Baderkhan Ahmad in al-Roj, and Ben Doherty in Sydney
Australia news, Syria, Islamic State, Kurds, Middle East and north Africa, Australian citizenship, Australian politics, Anthony Albanese, Angus TaylorExclusive: Government forces issued threat because Australian government failed to coordinate with them, official says * Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Syrian government officials warned a convoy of Australian families linked to Islamic State fighters that they would be fired upon if they continued towards Damascus last week, a Kurdish official said. A group of 34 Australian women and children, assisted by their relatives, left al-Roj detention camp on Monday 16 February under a Kurdish military escort, with the aim of reaching Damascus before flying to
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Trump Iran airstrikes decision to be guided by Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff’s advice
18 hours ago
by Hugo Lowell in Washington
US news, Iran, Middle East and north Africa, World news, Trump administration, Jared Kushner, US politics, US foreign policy, US national securityExclusive: Trump’s decision will be driven by envoys’ judgment on whether Iran is stalling on a nuclear deal Donald Trump’s decision to order airstrikes against Iran will hinge in part on the judgment of Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, about whether Tehran is stalling over a deal to relinquish its capacity to produce nuclear weapons, according to people familiar with the matter. The president has not made a final determination on any strikes, as the administration prepares for Iran to send its latest proposal this week, ahead of what officials have described as a last-ditch round of negotiations scheduled
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‘Our classrooms are empty because the graveyards are full’: Iran’s students on why they are protesting again
a day ago
by Deepa Parent
Iran, Protest, Universities, Middle East and north Africa, World newsAs details of the death toll for January’s protests continue to emerge, three students explain why they are resisting a return to normality More than 45 days after a brutal January crackdown that left thousands of Iranian protesters dead, students across several universities are protesting again. As Iran’s new academic term began on Saturday, students in Tehran gathered on campus, chanting anti-government slogans, despite a heavy security presence and plainclothes officers stationed outside university gates. The Guardian spoke to protesting students about why they were rallying despite the fact that thousands had been killed and tens of thousands arrested in the January
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NSW prepares for possible return of Islamic State-linked women and children from Syria
a day ago
by Tom McIlroy Political editor
Australian politics, New South Wales, Islamic State, Syria, Chris Minns, Anthony Albanese, Middle East and north Africa, Australia newsPremier Chris Minns says state has been working with federal government as group of 11 women and 23 children attempt to leave refugee camp * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast New South Wales authorities are preparing for about a third of the group of Australian women and children linked to Islamic State fighters to return to the state, if authorities in Syria allow them to leave the Roj refugee camp. The premier, Chris Minns, said the state government had been discussing the possible return of some of the 11 women and 23 children with federal government
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Tributes paid to ‘very loving and caring’ British hiker killed in Nepal bus crash
15 hours ago
by Gaurav Pokharel in Kathmandu and Penelope MacRae
Nepal, South and central Asia, UK newsDominic Ethan Stewart was among 19 killed when vehicle veered off road and plunged down mountainside Tributes have been paid to a young British hiker who was among 19 people killed when a packed passenger bus veered off a treacherous stretch of road and plunged 200 metres down a steep mountainside in Nepal. Twenty-five others were injured in the pre-dawn crash in the Himalayan foothills on Monday. The bus was carrying 44 people, including a number of tourists. Continue reading...
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Drives me crazy: Mumbai residents plead for respite from ‘musical road’
a day ago
by Penelope MacRae in Delhi
Mumbai, India, Road safety, Road transport, South and central Asia, World newsMotorway stretch plays music as a safety feature but those close to it say ‘intrusive’ noise is constant and distressing Residents of one of India’s most upmarket neighbourhoods say the country’s first “musical road” has turned their daily lives into a nightmare soundtrack. A stretch of Mumbai’s recently opened Coastal Road seafront expressway has been engineered to play the pulsating Oscar-winning tune Jai Ho from the movie Slumdog Millionaire when vehicles drive on it at lower speeds. Continue reading...
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Pakistan strikes militant hideouts on Afghan border after surge in attacks
3 days ago
by Associated Press
Pakistan, Afghanistan, South and central Asia, World news, Taliban‘Intelligence-based, selective operations’ carried out against Pakistani Taliban camps, says information ministry Pakistan launched multiple airstrikes on Saturday night targeting militants in neighbouring Afghanistan, where the government reported children were among dozens of people killed and wounded. Islamabad did not say precisely where the strikes were carried out or provide other details. Continue reading...
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Tech billionaires fly in for Delhi AI expo as Modi jostles to lead in south
6 days ago
by Robert Booth UK technology editor
AI (artificial intelligence), India, Narendra Modi, Computing, South and central Asia, World news, Google, OpenAI, TechnologyGoogle, Anthropic and OpenAI bosses to mingle with global south leaders wrestling for control over technology Silicon Valley tech billionaires will land in Delhi this week for an AI summit hosted by India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, where leaders of the global south will wrestle for control over the fast-developing technology. During the week-long AI Impact Summit, attended by thousands of tech executives, government officials and AI safety experts, tech companies valued at trillions of dollars will rub along with leaders of countries such as Kenya and Indonesia, where average wages dip well below $1,000 a month. Continue reading...
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Tarique Rahman sworn in as Bangladeshi prime minister
7 days ago
by Redwan Ahmed in Dhaka, and Penelope MacRae
Bangladesh, South and central Asia, World newsMany voice hope that moment will mark move away from repression and unrest and a chance to revive economy Bangladesh’s new prime minister has been sworn in, sealing a dramatic comeback for the Bangladesh Nationalist party (BNP) and formally closing the turbulent chapter that toppled Sheikh Hasina in 2024. The swearing-in of Tarique Rahman restored an elected government after 18 months of caretaker rule led by the Nobel peace prize laureate Muhammad Yunus. Continue reading...
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Witches, Nazi collaborators and banned books: International Booker prize announces 2026 longlist
38 minutes ago
by Ella Creamer
International Booker prize, Books, Culture, Awards and prizes, UK news, Fiction in translation, FictionThirteen books make this year’s longlist for translated fiction, which awards a first prize of £50,000 Olga Ravn, Daniel Kehlmann, Ia Genberg, Mathias Énard and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara are among those longlisted for the 10th International Booker prize, which recognises the best translated fiction published in the past year. A “Booker dozen” of 13 books were longlisted for this year’s prize. One author-translator pair will win £50,000, to be split equally. Continue reading...
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Andrew ‘rude, arrogant and entitled man’, says minister as government backs release of trade envoy documents – UK politics live
43 minutes ago
by Andrew Sparrow
Politics, UK news, Labour, House of Commons, Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Ukraine, Russia, Kemi Badenoch, Internet safety, Social media ban, Farming, Chris Bryant, Ed DaveyChris Bryant says former prince ‘could not distinguish between public and private interest’ Keir Starmer is taking part in a coalition of the willing video call to discuss Ukraine. There is a live feed of his public contribution here. Kemi Badenoch is holding a press conference now. She is appearing with the relatives of children who she says have died as a result of social media – either because they took their own lives, or because it led to them being attacked. She says she wants to give them a platform to tell their stories. Continue reading...
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AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot’s pay rises to £17.7m
an hour ago
by Julia Kollewe
AstraZeneca, Executive pay and bonuses, Business, Pharmaceuticals industry, UK newsIncrease of 6.4% comes as drugmaker reports strong profit growth, despite cancelling UK investment projects * Business live – latest updates Pascal Soriot, the chief executive of Britain’s largest pharmaceutical company, received a 6.4% pay rise last year, taking his total remuneration to £17.7m. The AstraZeneca boss is in line for a further increase this year, potentially making him the UK’s highest-paid chief executive once again. Continue reading...
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Netflix, Disney+ and Prime Video to come under stricter regulation in UK
an hour ago
by Mark Sweney
Ofcom, Regulators, Television industry, Television, Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video, Business, Culture, Media, Television & radio, UK news, Politics, Lisa NandyStreaming giants will be subject to same Ofcom scrutiny as traditional broadcasters such as the BBC Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video and Disney+ are to come under “enhanced regulation” by the UK media regulator, Ofcom, making the streaming giants subject to the same scrutiny as traditional broadcasters such as the BBC and ITV. Under the new regulatory regime, which will also apply to public service broadcaster (PSB) video-on-demand services such as ITVX and Channel 4, the platforms will have to adhere to regulations relating to accurate and impartial news and protecting audiences from harmful and offensive material. Continue reading...
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Reddit fined £14.5m in UK over use of under-13s’ data
an hour ago
by Robert Booth UK technology editor
Reddit, Information commissioner, Internet safety, Data protection, Technology, UK newsInformation Commissioner’s Office imposes largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy The UK information regulator has fined the social news service Reddit £14.5m for using the data of children under the age of 13 unlawfully and potentially exposing them to inappropriate and harmful content. The hefty punishment from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) is the largest fine yet for a breach of children’s privacy and comes after the US-based company introduced age checks in July, including age verification to access mature content. Prior to this, the ICO said, there were “a large number of children under 13 on the platform
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Trump reportedly frustrated as he waits on envoys’ judgment over Iran strikes – US politics live
44 minutes ago
by Rachel Leingang (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier)
Trump administration, US politics, US news, Donald Trump, Iran, World newsTrump’s decision to order airstrikes against Iran will hinge in part on the judgment of Trump’s special envoys, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic governor of Virginia, will deliver the Democratic response to Trump’s State of the Union tonight. Alex Padilla, a Democratic senator from California, will deliver a response in Spanish. Spanberger, seen as a moderate, won the governorship last year by 15 points, flipping the office from a Republican, Glenn Youngkin, back to Democrats. Continue reading...
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She’s raised almost $20m to help Minnesota – she thinks you can do it too
an hour ago
by Lex McMenamin
Minneapolis, US news, ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement), Trump administration, World news, US politicsAshley Fairbanks launched Stand with Minnesota as ICE raids rocked her home town – now donations are pouring in, and families’ rent is being paid From thousands of miles away in San Antonio, Ashley Fairbanks watched the news pour out of her home town of Minneapolis– federal immigration authorities flooding the streets and regular people stepping up to defend and care for their communities. She knew she had to do something. So the 39-year-old writer, artist and digital strategist started a Google Doc. Soon, the list of resources for residents grew so long it became unwieldy, and Fairbanks, who builds websites for
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Meta agrees $60bn deal with chipmaker AMD despite AI bubble fears
2 hours ago
by Reuters
Meta, AI (artificial intelligence), Business, Technology, Software, US news, Facebook, Media, ComputingFacebook owner’s investment described by semiconductor company as ‘big bet’ on artificial intelligence * Business live – latest updates The owner of Facebook has agreed to buy $60bn (£44.5bn) of artificial intelligence chips from the US semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices despite fears over the vast sums being spent on the AI industry. Meta, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, has clinched the five-year deal in which it will also buy 10% of the chip company. Continue reading...
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Witness to immigration agent’s killing of friend last year dies in Texas car crash
2 hours ago
by Associated Press
Trump administration, US immigration, US news, US politics, TexasJoshua Orta was passenger when Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot in his car by immigration agent in March 2025 The passenger in the car when Texas driver Ruben Ray Martinez was fatally shot in March 2025 by a federal immigration agent gave a lengthy statement to lawyers for the slain man’s family disputing the government’s version of events. That witness died on Saturday in a fiery car crash in San Antonio, a lawyer for Martinez’s family said. Continue reading...
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Abigail Spanberger: Democrats turn to centrist as party seeks return to relevance
2 hours ago
by Joseph Gedeon in Washington
Democrats, US politics, US Congress, Virginia, US news, World news, Donald Trump, State of the Union addressChoice of Virginia governor to give Trump rebuttal suggests DNC believes moderate approach could bring midterm wins On Tuesday night, Abigail Spanberger will walk out on to the historic grounds of Colonial Williamsburg and deliver the Democratic response to Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. With midterm elections approaching and Democrats desperately searching for a roadmap back to relevance, the party has turned to a moderate who once flipped a Republican-held congressional seat in the suburbs of Richmond and then parlayed that into the governorship by 15 points. Since taking the office from Republican Glenn Youngkin in January, Spanberger has moved
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Despite Supreme Court ruling, Trump has legal cards for tariffs in hand
2 hours ago
by James David Spellman
It’s no surprise that US President Donald Trump came out swinging after the Supreme Court’s stunning rebuke struck at the core of his economic agenda. It delivered his most consequential legal setback by blocking him from invoking emergency powers to unilaterally impose sweeping tariffs on trading partners. The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), enacted in 1977, allows the president to regulate economic transactions after declaring a national emergency in response to an...
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4 years into Ukraine conflict, Zelensky says Russia’s Putin ‘did not win this war’
4 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
President Volodymyr Zelensky marked the four-year anniversary of the Ukraine war by accusing Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin of trying to take over Ukraine, saying he had failed to achieve this and other war goals. In a video address that showed Ukrainians carrying out acts of resistance against Russian soldiers in the opening days of the conflict, Zelensky added that Ukraine was ready to do “everything” it could to secure a strong, lasting peace. Hundreds of thousands have died since Russia...
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France demands answers from US envoy for ignoring summons as diplomatic feud deepens
6 hours ago
by Associated Press
France’s feud with the US ambassador to Paris took another turn on Tuesday with the French foreign minister saying the top US diplomat in France must explain himself after ignoring a French summons. The minister suggested that Ambassador Charles Kushner will not have access to French government officials until he complies. French authorities had summoned Kushner, the father of US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner, for a meeting on Monday evening over comments from the...
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China’s Latin America strategy goes well beyond Venezuela and Panama
6 hours ago
by Winston Mok
In the early days of 2026, there has been an unexpected turn in China’s global relations. Some US allies have started reaching out to China just as China faced complications in ties with some friendly countries in the Global South. The underlying cause for both trends is the Trump administration’s imperial behaviour. With the dramatic abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and US President Donald Trump’s wish to control Venezuela’s oil, China’s economic stake in one of its closest...
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Where Ukraine and Russia stand as war enters fifth year
8 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, unleashing the deadliest war in Europe since World War II. As the conflict reaches its four-year mark, here’s a look at the state of the conflict and some of the consequences for both countries. Destruction The war has resulted in widespread destruction in Ukraine. Entire cities in Ukraine’s east and south, among them Bakhmut, Toretsk and Vovchansk, have been reduced to rubble by fighting. The World Health Organization has...
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‘K-wave’ scams exploiting Brazil’s superfans trigger police pact
8 hours ago
by SCMP’s Asia desk
When Brazilian K-pop fan Tami spotted a social media post last month selling a rare Polaroid photo signed by ZeroBaseOne member Zhang Hao, she jumped at the opportunity. The seller identified himself as a South Korean named Park Chae-ah, according to the Chosun Daily newspaper. She transferred the money. Then Park switched his account to private and vanished. Tami* is far from alone. Across Brazil, home to one of Latin America’s most passionate Korean pop culture communities, scammers have found...
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Trump pushes back on reports of Iran war risks as clock ticks
9 hours ago
by Bloomberg
US President Donald Trump has pushed back on reports that the Pentagon was concerned that an extended military campaign against Iran could prove difficult, even as he insisted his preference was still to strike a diplomatic deal. “Everything that has been written about a potential War with Iran has been written incorrectly, and purposefully so,” Trump said in a social media post on Monday. “I am the one that makes the decision, I would rather have a Deal than not but, if we don’t make a Deal, it...
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How rendezvous with girlfriend led to violent end for Mexico’s most-wanted drug kingpin
10 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
A girlfriend of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, the powerful leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel who was killed by the Mexican military, was key to finding him in Tapalpa, a picturesque village of holiday homes in western Mexico. The 59-year-old Oseguera, nicknamed “El Mencho”, was wounded in a clash with soldiers on Sunday and died while being airlifted to hospital. The operation was launched when Mexican military intelligence agents, supported by the US military’s Northern Command, learned...
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A speedy pardon in the Jimmy Lai case is unlikely
13 hours ago
by Grenville Cross
After being sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment for national security offences on February 9, Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying will decide if he wishes to appeal. He may challenge his convictions and/or sentences and has about two weeks to make up his mind. Given the length of his trial (156 days), the mountain of evidence and the legal issues, it will take time for any appeal to be resolved. Meanwhile, foreign actors have turned their attention to securing Lai’s early release. The lead...
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Assailant kills police officer and himself in blast near Moscow railway station
14 hours ago
by Associated Press
An unidentified assailant detonated an explosive device next to a patrol vehicle in Moscow early Tuesday, killing himself and a police officer, and leaving two other officers injured, officials said. The attack happened minutes after midnight near the Savyolovsky Train Station in the Russian capital’s downtown, according to Moscow’s branch of the Interior Ministry. It said the assailant approached a traffic police vehicle and detonated an explosive device, killing an officer on the spot and...
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Mexico security forces keep up fight with cartel gunmen after drug lord’s death
15 hours ago
by Associated Press
A day after the Mexican army killed the country’s most powerful drug lord, the picturesque town where it happened was a study in contrasts. Tourist shops in Tapalpa were open Monday, and workers were on the job. But gunshots also rang out, and in the street was a dead man lying beside a bullet-pocked vehicle. Meanwhile, heavily armed Mexican security forces kept up their battle with cartel gunmen following the killing that sparked a surge in violence and put the country on edge. Cartel fighters...
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US children’s book author killed husband for his millions, trial hears
16 hours ago
by Associated Press
Prosecutors portrayed a Utah mother and children’s book author as a money-hungry killer Monday on the first day of a murder trial in her husband’s death, while her defence team urged jurors not to make judgments before hearing her side. Kouri Richins, 35, faces a slew of charges for allegedly killing her husband, Eric Richins, with fentanyl in March 2022 at their home just outside the ski town of Park City. She has vehemently denied the allegations. Prosecutors say she slipped five times the...
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Woman’s body found in her Portugal flat 2 years after death
17 hours ago
by dpa
Authorities in the northern Portuguese city of Porto have discovered the body of a woman believed to have died two years ago in her flat, national media reported on Monday. The remains were found on January 21, according to Correio da Manhã newspaper and other outlets, citing local officials. The diabetic woman is thought to have died at the age of 73. The exact circumstances of her death are still unclear. The alarm was raised by a doctor at a health centre after the woman failed to attend...
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China’s zero-tariff offer to Africa is a game changer
17 hours ago
by Göktuğ Çalışkan
African nations have long been asking: who really opens their market, on what terms and how fast? Earlier this month, China provided a clear answer when it stated that starting on May 1, China will apply zero tariffs on imports from 53 African countries with which it maintains diplomatic relations. For years, Western governments have promised to rethink their partnerships with their African counterparts, tying positive language about equality and sustainability to complex trade frameworks. China...
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China has ‘massively expanded’ its nuclear arsenal, claims US State Department
18 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
The United States on Monday accused China of dramatically swelling its nuclear arsenal and doubled down on claims that Beijing had conducted secret nuclear tests, demanding again it be part of any future arms control treaty. Washington said the lapsing earlier this month of New Start – the last treaty between top nuclear powers the United States and Russia – presented the possibility of striking a “better agreement” including Beijing. Christopher Yeaw, the US assistant secretary of state for...
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Bafta and BBC apologise after racial slur from guest with Tourette’s during awards show
19 hours ago
by Associated Press
The British Academy Film Awards and BBC apologised on Monday for a racial slur that was broadcast during Sunday’s show while two stars of the film Sinners were on stage. The Tourette syndrome campaigner who shouted the slur said he was “deeply mortified” and what he said was “not a reflection of my personal beliefs”. The highly offensive word could be heard as Sinners stars Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo, who are both black, were presenting the award for best visual effects during Sunday’s...
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Son of slain director Rob Reiner pleads not guilty to parents’ murder
20 hours ago
by Agence France-Presse
The son of US film director Rob Reiner pleaded not guilty to the fatal stabbing of both of his parents when he appeared in a Los Angeles court on Monday. Nick Reiner faces two counts of first-degree murder over the double killing that sent shock waves through Hollywood days before Christmas. The 32-year-old was arrested on December 14 after the bodies of his filmmaker father and his mother, photographer Michele Singer Reiner, were discovered at their home in the upmarket Brentwood neighbourhood...
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US judge permanently blocks release of report on Trump classified documents case
21 hours ago
by Reuters
A US judge permanently barred the Justice Department on Monday from releasing a prosecutor’s report on the criminal case accusing US President Donald Trump of unlawfully retaining classified documents following his first term in office. Florida-based US District Judge Aileen Cannon found that releasing the report would be a “manifest injustice” to the Republican president and two former associates who were charged alongside him because it would detail substantial allegations of criminal...
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Former UK ambassador Mandelson arrested after Epstein leaks
21 hours ago
by Reuters
Former British ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson was arrested by London police on Monday on suspicion of misconduct in public office, following revelations over his ties to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, 72, was fired from the most prestigious posting in Britain’s diplomatic service in September, when the depth of his friendship with Epstein started to become clear. Police earlier this month began a criminal investigation into Mandelson after Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s...
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Panama ousts Hong Kong operator, enabling canal port takeover welcomed by US
a day ago
by Igor Patrick,Teresa Elena Frontado
Panama on Monday took control of two ports at the Atlantic and Pacific entrances of the Panama Canal after a Supreme Court ruling voided the concession of their Hong Kong-based operator, a move Washington officials said was “in line with President Donald Trump’s drive to curb Chinese influence” over the strategic waterway. A decree published in the official gazette authorises the Panama Maritime Authority to occupy and run the ports of Balboa and Cristobal for “reasons of urgent social...
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Germany’s outreach to China signals a reckoning, rather than a shift
a day ago
by Sebastian Contin Trillo-Figueroa
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, who heads to Beijing this week, had warned last year in relation to China that economic dependencies make Germany “susceptible to blackmail”. As chancellor, he confronts an export model under strain, a deteriorating transatlantic environment and the fiscal reality that moral posturing does not sustain an industrial economy. Merz has never been shy about stating where he stands. As chairman of the non-profit Atlantik-Brucke from 2009 to 2019, he boosted the view...
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New Dutch government under centrist Jetten takes power
a day ago
by Agence France-Presse
A new Dutch government took power on Monday, with 38-year-old centrist Rob Jetten sworn in as the country’s youngest-ever prime minister and the first openly gay one. Jetten pulled off a stunning election win in October, coming from behind to dethrone the far-right Freedom Party (PVV) led by firebrand politician Geert Wilders by a razor-thin margin. The snap election was called after the PVV withdrew from the previous coalition, the Netherlands’ most right-wing government in recent history,...
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Ukraine’s Zelensky says he believes Putin has started World War III
a day ago
by dpa
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that he believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin “has already begun” World War III, in an interview with British broadcaster BBC. Speaking in Kyiv over the weekend ahead of the fourth anniversary of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine on Tuesday, Zelensky said that his view of the conflict was different from that of US President Donald Trump. “We have different views regarding a third world war,” Zelensky said in the interview, translated...
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Trump’s trip to China scheduled, archeologists unearth temple: 5 weekend reads you missed
a day ago
by SCMP
We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Date set for US President Donald Trump’s trip to China 2. EU bans Chinese organisations from critical tech programmes, including AI, chips 3. Trump says raising US global tariff rate from 10 per cent to 15 per cent 4. As high-speed railways saturate China, how far can their global reach...
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How can world resist US, China economic coercion? Abraham Newman explains
a day ago
by Meredith Chen
Abraham Newman is an American political scientist and a professor in the School of Foreign Service and Department of Government at Georgetown University. His research focuses on the ways in which economic interdependence and globalisation have transformed international politics. Along with Henry Farrell, he is co-author of the book Underground Empire: How America Weaponised the World Economy, published in 2023. In this interview, he discusses how the concept of weaponised interdependence has...
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China’s C909 jet gets international uplift with funding for adoptive airline
a day ago
by Frank Chen,Ralph Jennings
China’s leading planemaker is redoubling its efforts to boost the international profile of its home-grown jets in 2026, injecting a sizeable amount of capital into a subsidiary carrier as it attempts to widen its planes’ coverage area and attract more overseas buyers. The state-owned Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac), manufacturer of the C909 regional airliner and the company’s flagship narrowbody C919, recently infused 634 million yuan (US$91.76 million) into C909 launch customer...
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Iran in secret deal with Russia for hundreds of shoulder-fired missiles: report
2 days ago
by Reuters
Iran agreed a secret €500 million (US$589 million) arms deal with Russia to acquire thousands of advanced shoulder-fired missiles, the Financial Times reported on Sunday. The agreement, signed in Moscow in December, commits Russia to deliver 500 man-portable “Verba” launch units and 2,500 “9M336” missiles over three years, the Financial Times said, citing leaked Russian documents seen by the Financial Times and several people familiar with the deal. Reuters could not immediately verify the...
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One Battle After Another triumphs with 6 Bafta prizes as Oscars loom
2 days ago
by Associated Press
Politically charged thriller One Battle After Another took six prizes, including best picture, at the British Academy Film Awards (Baftas) on Sunday, building momentum ahead of the Oscars next month. Blues-steeped vampire epic Sinners and gothic horror story Frankenstein won three awards each, while Shakespearean family tragedy Hamnet was named best British film. Jessie Buckley, as widely predicted, won the best actress prize for playing a grieving mother and wife of William Shakespeare, Agnes...
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‘Brutal terrorist act’: Zelensky hits out at Russia after twin blasts rock Ukraine’s Lviv
2 days ago
by dpa
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday described a pair of explosions in Lviv as a “cynical and brutal terrorist act” that was “organised by Russia”. Two explosions rocked the western Ukrainian city in the early hours, killing a 23-year-old policewoman and injuring 25 others. “This was a terrorist attack,” Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said in a video posted on his Telegram channel, adding that police have detained a female Ukrainian national. Police said that the detained woman was a...
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Blizzard blast: New York City battens down for major winter storm
2 days ago
by Agence France-Presse
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani on Sunday ordered the shutdown of the city’s entire traffic network for all but emergency travel as a massive snowstorm began to hit the northeast United States. Tens of millions of Americans from the US capital Washington to the northern state of Maine prepared for up to two feet (60cm) of snow forecast in some areas. The National Weather Service (NWS) said blizzard conditions would “quickly materialise” from Maryland up to southeastern New England, making travel...
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Mexico kills cartel leader wanted by US, sparking violent reaction
2 days ago
by Associated Press
The Mexican army killed the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Ruben Oseguera Cervantes, “El Mencho”, on Sunday, decapitating what had become Mexico’s most powerful drug cartel and thrusting swaths of the nation into chaos. The drug lord was the Mexican government’s biggest prize yet to show the Trump administration in its efforts to crack down on the cartels, and his death was met with a forceful reaction from the cartel, known by its Spanish initials CJNG. Cars burned out by...
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France to summon US ambassador over comments on activist killing
2 days ago
by Associated Press
France will summon US ambassador Charles Kushner to protest against comments by the Trump administration over the death of a far-right activist, the foreign affairs minister said. Jean-Noel Barrot was reacting to a statement by the State Department’s Counterterrorism Bureau, which posted on social media that “reports, corroborated by the French Minister of the Interior, that Quentin Deranque was killed by left-wing militants, should concern us all”. Deranque, a far-right activist, died of brain...
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UK protection officers instructed to guard 2010 Epstein party in New York: reports
2 days ago
by Reuters
London police officers assigned to King Charles’ younger brother Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were instructed to provide security for a dinner party at Jeffrey Epstein’s residence in New York in 2010, British media reported on Sunday. The Sunday Times, which first reported the story, cited emails from the Epstein files that appear to detail arrangements for Mountbatten-Windsor to stay with the late convicted sex offender in December 2010, along with his two protection officers from London’s...
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Armed man shot dead at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, US Secret Service says
2 days ago
by Associated Press
An armed man drove into the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago, US President Donald Trump’s resort in Palm Beach, Florida, before being shot and killed early Sunday morning, according to a spokesman for the US Secret Service. Although Trump often spends weekends at his resort, he was at the White House when the breach occurred around 1.30am. The man had a fuel can and a shotgun, authorities said. Investigators identified him as 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of North Carolina, according to a...
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Hungary spoils EU attempt at Russia sanctions package over oil flows
2 days ago
by Associated Press
Hungary threatened to block a new package of European Union sanctions against Russia and to stall efforts to help Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries to Hungary resume. The EU’s foreign ministers are set to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss the bloc’s 20th round of sanctions against Moscow, a measure they hope will be approved in time to coincide with the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Tuesday. In a video posted to social media on Sunday, Hungarian Foreign Minister...
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China seeks to cultivate a food supply immune to geopolitical shocks
2 days ago
by Genevieve Donnellon-May
A single policy could redraw global food supply lines and scramble markets from the Americas to Southeast Asia. In early February, the Communist Party of China’s Central Committee and State Council released the annual “No 1 document”, the country’s first policy statement of 2026 and its blueprint for agriculture, farmers and rural areas. As one of the world’s largest agricultural producers, importers and exporters, any shift in Beijing’s food strategy carries global repercussions. Covering...
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Russian barrage strikes Ukrainian infrastructure as war drags on
2 days ago
by Agence France-Presse
Russia fired scores of missiles and drones at targets across Ukraine on Sunday, crashing into energy and rail infrastructure and residential buildings, just two days before the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion. Journalists in Kyiv heard a series of blasts starting at around 4.00am, shortly after an air raid alert was issued, with the air force later widening the alert nationwide, citing the threat of missiles. “Moscow continues to invest in strikes more than in diplomacy,” Ukrainian...
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Why the Fed credibility crisis will hit emerging markets harder
2 days ago
by Shanshan Li
As political pressure on the US Federal Reserve intensifies in Washington, the reverberations are rippling across the globe. Gregory Peters, co-chief investment officer of fixed income at PGIM, has noted that bringing political pressure to bear on the Fed is an “own goal” – a self-inflicted shock that erodes confidence and is unlikely to deliver lower borrowing costs for the US. This reassessment – marked by quiet “sell America” trades – is beginning to surface. The damage extends far beyond...
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Envoy says Trump ‘curious’ why Iran has not ‘capitulated’ under US pressure
2 days ago
by Agence France-Presse
US envoy Steve Witkoff said on Saturday that President Donald Trump is questioning why Iran has not “capitulated” in the face of Washington’s military build-up aimed at pressuring them into a nuclear deal. The United States and Iran this week resumed Oman-mediated talks in Geneva aimed at averting the possibility of military action, after Washington sent two aircraft carriers, jets and weaponry to the region to back its warnings. In a Fox News interview with Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara, Witkoff...
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Trump sends ‘great’ hospital boat to treat ‘sick’ people in Greenland
2 days ago
by Agence France-Presse
US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was sending a hospital boat to Greenland, an autonomous Danish territory that he has long coveted and threatened to seize by force. Trump’s rhetoric has ratcheted up tensions between the United States and Denmark, while putting the global spotlight on the Arctic as he insists mineral-rich Greenland is vital for US and Nato security against Russia and China. He said the boat would treat many “sick” people in Greenland, without providing any details on...
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Hong Kong, UAE solidify financial links with deeper regulatory ties, digital assets focus
2 days ago
by Aileen Chuang
Deeper regulatory ties and a shared push for new growth sectors are expected to give fresh impetus to cross-border investment flows between China and the Middle East, according to industry players and a United Arab Emirates (UAE) regulator. Hong Kong would benefit from the increased China-Middle East cooperation as the city develops into “a key hub for Middle Eastern capital to deploy in Asia and an important gateway for Chinese capital to go global to the Middle East,” said Linda Cai, inbound...
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Tehranis brace for ‘inevitable’ US-Iran war: ‘I am getting more scared’
3 days ago
by Agence France-Presse
Tehran resident Hamid struggles to sleep as fears of renewed conflict haunt the Iranian capital after last year’s 12-day war with Israel. “I don’t sleep well at night even while taking pills,” Hamid said, as he expressed concern for his “family’s health … my kids and grandchildren”. The city woke up to blasts overnight from June 12 to 13 last year as Iran’s arch-enemy Israel launched an unprecedented military campaign. The war erupted as Iran was preparing for another round of talks with the...
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US ambassador says Israel has right to much of Middle East, sparking uproar
3 days ago
by Associated Press
Arab and Muslim nations on Saturday sharply condemned comments by the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, who said Israel has a right to much of the Middle East. Huckabee made the comments in an interview with conservative commentator Tucker Carlson that aired on Friday. Carlson said that according to the Bible, the descendants of Abraham would receive land that today would include essentially the entire Middle East, and asked Huckabee if Israel had a right to that land. Huckabee responded:...
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Humans vs robots? China begs to disagree
3 days ago
by Gerui Wang
The 2026 Spring Festival Gala, one of the world’s most-watched television events, featured a dazzling array of humanoid robots. They performed martial arts, executed intricate sword dances and even took part in a comedy skit alongside human celebrities. While parts of the world still view humanoid robots with a mixture of fear and suspicion, as potential job-stealers or sci-fi villains, China is increasingly embracing them as partners in work, entertainment and daily life. Amid the escalating...
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Bus with Chinese tourists crashes through ice on Russia’s Lake Baikal, killing 8
3 days ago
by Associated Press
A tour bus carrying Chinese tourists plunged through the ice on Russia’s Lake Baikal, killing eight people, officials said. One of the Chinese tourists managed to escape from the bus, which was crossing the frozen lake on Friday, Irkutsk regional Governor Igor Kobzev wrote in a Telegram post on Saturday. He said the dead included seven Chinese tourists and the driver. The bus plunged into a three-metre-wide (10-foot-wide) ice crevasse, Russia’s Emergencies Ministry reported. The lake is 18...
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Nasa moon rocket hit by new problem, pushing launch with astronauts into April
3 days ago
by Associated Press
Nasa’s new moon rocket suffered another setback on Saturday, almost certain to bump astronauts’ first lunar trip in decades into spring. The space agency revealed the latest problem just one day after targeting March 6 for the Artemis II mission, humanity’s first flight to the moon in more than half a century. Overnight, the flow of helium to the rocket’s upper stage was interrupted, officials said. Solid helium flow is essential for purging the engines and pressurising the fuel tanks. This...
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Trump says raising US global tariff rate from 10 per cent to 15 per cent
3 days ago
by Bochen Han
A day after his stunning loss at the US Supreme Court, President Donald Trump said on Saturday he is raising from 10 to 15 per cent a temporary tariff rate on imports from all countries. “I, as President of the United States of America, will be, effective immediately, raising the 10 per cent Worldwide Tariff on Countries, many of which have been ‘ripping’ the US off for decades, without retribution (until I came along!), to the fully allowed, and legally tested, 15 per cent level,” he said on...
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Germany’s ruling party seeks social media ban for children aged below 14
3 days ago
by Reuters
Germany’s ruling conservatives on Saturday passed a motion to ban social media use for under 14s and introduce more stringent digital verification checks for teenagers, building momentum for such limits in Germany and elsewhere in Europe. At a party conference in the city of Stuttgart, Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democratic Union also called for fines for online platforms that failed to enforce such limits and European Union-wide harmonisation of age standards. A growing number of...
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India, Brazil sign rare earths deal to build ‘resilient supply chains’
3 days ago
by Agence France-Presse
India and Brazil agreed to boost cooperation on critical minerals and rare earths on Saturday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said after talks in New Delhi with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. “The agreement on critical minerals and rare earths is a major step towards building resilient supply chains,” Modi said. Brazil has the world’s second-largest reserves of critical minerals, which are used in everything from electric vehicles, solar panels and smartphones to jet engines and...
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30 people in Iran face death penalty after protests, Amnesty says
3 days ago
by dpa
At least 30 people in Iran are facing the death penalty in connection with the recent mass protests in the country, according to the human rights group Amnesty International. A death sentence had already been passed in eight cases, the organisation reported on Friday. Among the 22 other cases before the courts, two men were still minors, Amnesty said. The Iranian judiciary has not officially confirmed any of the death sentences. However, a week ago, the Misan news agency, which is linked to the...
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The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
an hour ago
by Tripp Mickle
Computer Chips, Computers and the Internet, Factories and Manufacturing, United States International Relations, International Relations, International Trade and World Market, Customs (Tariff), United States Economy, Foreign Investments, Taiwan, China, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd, Arizona, NVIDIA Corporation, Huang, Jen-Hsun, Intel Corporation, Samsung Group, Musk, Elon, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Su, Lisa (1969- ), Apple Inc, Cook, Timothy D, Qualcomm Inc, Biden, Joseph R Jr, Sullivan, Jacob J (1976- ), Raimondo, Gina M, Trump, Donald J, Lutnick, Howard W, Xi JinpingIf China invades Taiwan and cuts off its chip exports to American companies, the tech industry and the U.S. economy would be crippled.
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Meta Announces Major Chips-for-Stock Deal With AMD
an hour ago
by Adam Satariano and Tripp Mickle
Computer Chips, Artificial Intelligence, Data Centers, Meta Platforms Inc, Advanced Micro Devices Inc.The multibillion-dollar deal is AMD’s latest move to catch up to Nvidia in the lucrative world of selling artificial intelligence chips.
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China Amps Up Pressure on Japan With Restrictions on Exports
3 hours ago
by Javier C. Hernández
Defense and Military Forces, International Relations, Politics and Government, International Trade and World Market, Rare Earths, Economic Conditions and Trends, Embargoes and Sanctions, Japan, China, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Limited, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Subaru, Takaichi, SanaeBeijing placed the restrictions on 20 Japanese entities with ties to the defense industry, the latest ratcheting up of its monthslong feud with Tokyo.
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ICE Whistle-Blower Says Training Is ‘Broken,’ and OpenAI Faces Questions About Mass Shooter
4 hours ago
by Tracy Mumford, Will Jarvis, Ian Stewart and Adam Satariano
Whistle-Blowers, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US), OpenAI LabsPlus, how Mexico tracked its most-wanted cartel leader.
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How Russia Put Its Future at Risk by Remaking Its Economy for War
4 hours ago
by Paul Sonne
Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022), Innovation, Foreign Investments, Economic Conditions and Trends, Putin, Vladimir V, RussiaAbout half of the country’s federal budget goes toward the fight in Ukraine, money that does little to support its long-term development.
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These Ukrainians Don’t Want to Be Traded to Russia for Peace
10 hours ago
by Andrew E. Kramer, Lynsey Addario and Tyler Hicks
Russian Invasion of Ukraine (2022), Peace Process, Donetsk (Ukraine), Slovyansk (Ukraine)Four years into the war, a major sticking point in talks is control of the eastern Donetsk region. Residents could face an agonizing choice if Ukraine gives up the territory.
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Mexican Forces Say They Tracked El Mencho to Cabin by Following His Lover
7 hours ago
by James Wagner
internal-open-access-from-nl, Drug Cartels, Defense and Military Forces, United States International Relations, Oseguera Cervantes, Nemesio, Sheinbaum, Claudia, Trump, Donald J, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Mexico, Jalisco (Mexico), Tapalpa (Mexico), Puerto Vallarta (Mexico)Top security officials revealed details of the operation that led to the death of Mexico’s most wanted drug cartel leader.
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After Six Decades of the War on Drugs, What Works?
43 minutes ago
by Maria Abi-Habib
Mexico, Drug Cartels, United States International Relations, Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Sinaloa Cartel, Oseguera Cervantes, Nemesio, Politics and Government, internal-open-access-from-nlThe U.S. and its allies have spilled blood and treasure to kill drug lords and defeat cartels, but the drugs keep coming and the new groups are more violent than ever.
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What Travelers Need to Know as Cartel Violence Rattles Mexico
18 hours ago
by Stephen Hiltner
Mexico, Travel and Vacations, Airlines and Airplanes, Delays (Transportation), Drug Cartels, Travel Warnings, Oseguera Cervantes, NemesioThe killing of a drug lord and the unrest that followed have prompted flight cancellations, roadblocks, cruise disruptions and “shelter in place” alerts.
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New York City’s Homeless Population Endures Another Dangerous Storm
an hour ago
by Wesley Parnell and Dana Rubinstein
Snow and Snowstorms, Homeless Persons, New York City, Mamdani, ZohranMayor Zohran Mamdani said on Monday that his administration had taken lessons from the city’s last storm, when at least 20 people died after exposure to the cold.
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What to Know in NYC After Blizzard: School Closures, Transportation and More
40 minutes ago
by Andy Newman
Delays (Transportation), Shutdowns (Institutional), New York City, Snow and SnowstormsPublic schools and Broadway theaters will be open, but transit and flight disruptions could linger.
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A Blizzard With Record Snowfall for Parts of the Northeast
3 hours ago
by Andy Newman and Jacey Fortin
Snow and Snowstorms, Power Failures and Blackouts, Ice, Weather, Transit Systems, Delays (Transportation), Railroads, Traffic Accidents and Safety, National Weather Service, Pennsylvania Station (Manhattan, NY), Healey, Maura (1971- ), Mamdani, Zohran, Wu, Michelle (1985- ), Barnstable (Mass), Boston (Mass), Cape Cod (Mass), Central Park (Manhattan, NY), Connecticut, Long Island (NY), Massachusetts, New England States (US), Northeastern States (US), Rhode Island, New York State, New York CityAt the storm’s peak, well over half a million homes and businesses in the Northeast were without power.
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Ahead of State of the Union, Cracks Appear in Trump Coalition
2 hours ago
by Campbell Robertson and Ruth Igielnik
United States Politics and Government, Presidential Election of 2024, State of the Union Message (US), United States Economy, Trump, Donald J, Luzerne County (Pa), Wilkes-Barre (Pa), Hispanic-AmericansAs the president prepares to speak to the nation, Northeastern Pennsylvania is showing discontent on the edges of the Trump coalition and an energized Democratic opposition.
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State of the Union May Be a Trial for ‘Barely Invited’ Justices
5 hours ago
by Ann E. Marimow
United States Politics and Government, Federal Courts (US), International Trade and World Market, Citizens United v Federal Election Commission (Supreme Court Decision), Customs (Tariff), Courts and the Judiciary, Suits and Litigation (Civil), State of the Union Message (US)If tradition holds, members of the Supreme Court will attend Trump’s annual speech, just days after ruling against the legality of his tariffs.
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Trump State of the Union Speech 2026: How to Watch, Time and Attendees
5 hours ago
by Minho Kim
United States Politics and Government, State of the Union Message (US), Demonstrations, Protests and Riots, News and News Media, Trump, Donald J, Spanberger, AbigailPresident Trump will speak at 9 p.m. Eastern time to a joint session of Congress. The New York Times will carry the address live.
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Homeownership Is Out of Reach for Many Americans, Despite a Buyer’s Market
a day ago
by Kailyn Rhone
Personal Finances, Mortgages, Real Estate and Housing (Residential), Affordable Housing, Prices (Fares, Fees and Rates), United States Economy, Savings, Generation Z, Millennial Generation, Renting and Leasing (Real Estate), High Net Worth IndividualsA growing split between low-to-middle-income families and wealthy households is changing who has access to homeownership now.
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Paramount Revises Its Bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
an hour ago
by Lauren Hirsch
Paramount Global, Warner Bros Discovery, United States, Ellison, David (1983- ), Mergers, Acquisitions and DivestituresNetflix, Warner Bros. Discovery’s preferred acquirer, now has four days to counter Paramount’s revised offer.
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Trump Says General Caine Sees Easy Victory if U.S. Attacks Iran
13 hours ago
by Eric Schmitt
United States Politics and Government, United States International Relations, United States Defense and Military Forces, Nuclear Weapons, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Trump, Donald J, Caine, John Daniel (1968- ), Iran, internal-open-access-from-nlThe remarks differ from what Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is said to have told the president in high-level White House meetings.
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Iranians Brace for War as Trump Considers Targeted Strikes
2 hours ago
by Erika Solomon
Iran, Tehran (Iran), Caspian Sea, United States International Relations, Iran-Israel Proxy Conflict, Iran-Israel War (2025- ), War and Armed Conflicts, Middle EastStores are well-stocked and shortages of food and other essential supplies have not been reported, but many Iranians are in limbo as they wait to see whether U.S. forces will attack.
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Mandelson’s Arrest Adds to Scandal That Has Rattled Starmer and Labour Party
34 minutes ago
by Michael D. Shear
Politics and Government, Ethics and Official Misconduct, Legislatures and Parliaments, Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates, Labour Party (Great Britain), Mandelson, Peter, Epstein, Jeffrey E (1953- ), Andrew, Duke of York, Starmer, Keir, Great BritainThe arrest of the British former envoy to Washington, long a key figure in the Labour Party, deepened a scandal that has led to calls for Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s resignation.
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Peter Attia Leaves CBS News Amid Epstein Files Fallout
17 hours ago
by Maggie Astor and Benjamin Mullin
Attia, Peter, CBS News, Epstein, Jeffrey E (1953- )Emails showed that the longevity influencer had provided medical advice to Jeffrey Epstein and had made crude comments about women.
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Gustavo Dudamel’s Long Goodbye to L.A., and Long Hello to New York
an hour ago
by Adam Nagourney
Classical Music, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Dudamel, Gustavo, Garcetti, Eric M, Borda, Deborah, Tarnopolsky, MatiasAs the conductor prepares to leave the Los Angeles Philharmonic for the New York Philharmonic, he says, “I am in two waters.”
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Mamdani’s Vanquished Foes Are Plotting a Comeback, if Not Revenge
2 hours ago
by Sally Goldenberg, Nicholas Fandos and Dana Rubinstein
Mamdani, Zohran, Politics and Government, Mayors, Political Action Committees, Socialism (Theory and Philosophy), Lobbying and Lobbyists, Taxation, New York City, Democratic Socialists of America, Partnership for New York City, Cohen, Stephen I, Stringer, Scott MMany of New York City’s wealthy and well-connected power players find themselves in an unfamiliar place: the wilderness.
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In Blow to Mamdani, Left-Leaning Group Breaks With Mayor Over U.S. House Race
7 hours ago
by Nicholas Fandos
United States Politics and Government, Endorsements, Primaries and Caucuses, Democratic Socialists of America, Working Families Party, House of Representatives, Elections, House of Representatives, Reynoso, Antonio, Valdez, Claire (1989- ), Velazquez, Nydia M, Mamdani, Zohran, New York CityMayor Zohran Mamdani of New York had lobbied for his preferred candidate, Claire Valdez. But the party backed Antonio Reynoso, the Brooklyn borough president.
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I.R.S. Tactics Against Meta Open a New Front in the Corporate Tax Fight
5 hours ago
by Jesse Drucker
Tax Shelters, Tax Evasion, United States Politics and Government, Corporate Taxes, Amazon.com Inc, Apple Inc, Facebook Inc, Google Inc, Instagram Inc, Internal Revenue Service, Biden, Joseph R Jr, Trump, Donald JThe agency is using real-world profit data to challenge how big companies value offshore intellectual property.
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What Brontë Country Tells Us About Britain Today
10 hours ago
by Michael D. Shear and Andrew Testa
Books and Literature, Writing and Writers, Economic Conditions and Trends, Wuthering Heights (2026) (Movie), Bradford (England), England, Great Britain, Yorkshire (England), Bronte, Emily, Bronte, Charlotte, Bronte Parsonage Museum, Labour Party (Great Britain), Haworth (England)West Yorkshire, where the original “Wuthering Heights” was written, offers a window into the forces that are disrupting British politics.
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After a Big Loss, What to Expect From Trump at the State of the Union
5 hours ago
by Binyamin Appelbaum, Emily Bazelon and Stephen Stromberg
audio-neutral-informative, United States Politics and Government, International Trade and World Market, Decisions and Verdicts, Customs (Tariff), United States Economy, Presidential Power (US), Artificial Intelligence, Labor and Jobs, State of the Union Message (US), Cost of Living and Affordability, House of Representatives, Democratic Party, Senate, Trump, Donald J, Roberts, John G JrThe Supreme Court’s tariffs ruling could make for a tense night.
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Trump Is Turning the F.C.C. and F.T.C. Against Free Expression
2 hours ago
by The Editorial Board
Federal Communications Commission, Federal Trade Commission, Carr, Brendan Thomas (1979- ), Colbert, Stephen, Kimmel, Jimmy, First Amendment (US Constitution), Regulation and Deregulation of Industry, Trump, Donald J, Ferguson, Andrew N, Television, CBS News, Freedom of Speech and Expression, News and News MediaTrump appointees have transformed the F.T.C. and F.C.C. into instruments of ideological enforcement.
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Your Tariff Questions
3 hours ago
by Sam Sifton
internal-storyline-no, Customs (Tariff), Taxation, Protectionism (Trade)We’re addressing some of your concerns about President Trump’s tariff regime.
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Late Night Sums Up Trump’s Tariff Tiff with the Supreme Court
7 hours ago
by Trish Bendix
Television, Kimmel, Jimmy, Jimmy Kimmel Live (TV Program), Fallon, Jimmy, The Tonight Show (TV Program), Late Show with Stephen Colbert (TV Program), Colbert, Stephen, Late Night with Seth Meyers (TV Program), Meyers, Seth, Have I Got News for You (TV Program), The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (TV Program), Stewart, Jon“Wow, a court composed mostly of his own party’s appointees has struck down the constitutionality of Trump’s go-it-alone tariff regime,” Jon Stewart said. “That’s bound to cause him some introspection.”
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Billions in Climate Grants, Frozen for a Year, Are Back in Court
5 hours ago
by Claire Brown
Zeldin, Lee M, Trump, Donald J, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Aid (US), Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Global Warming, Green Climate Fund, Alternative and Renewable Energy, Project Veritas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, United States Politics and Government, Suits and Litigation (Civil), Inflation Reduction Act of 2022A year after the Trump administration blocked money that had been awarded by Congress for clean energy projects, the legal fight over the funds rages on.
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Texas Rep. Tony Gonzales Pressured to Resign Over Sexual Messages to Staff Member
12 hours ago
by J. David Goodman and Edgar Sandoval
United States Politics and Government, Adultery, Elections, House of Representatives, Republican Party, Democratic Party, Boebert, Lauren, Cornyn, John, Gonzales, Tony (1980- ), Roy, Chip (1972- ), Texas, Uvalde (Tex)Democrats and Republicans urged Tony Gonzales to step down after allegations that he had sent inappropriate texts to a staff member and had a sexual relationship with her.
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9 Accused of Antifa Ties After a Violent ICE Protest Face Trial in Texas
5 hours ago
by Shaila Dewan and Alan Feuer
Demonstrations, Protests and Riots, Terrorism, Fringe Groups and Movements, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (US)The government said the protesters were part of a heavily armed “cell” of left-wing activists, one of whom was accused of shooting an officer at an anti-ICE protest.
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After Saks Bankruptcy, Richard Baker Says He Saved Luxury Department Stores
14 hours ago
by Vanessa Friedman, Lauren Hirsch, Jacob Bernstein and Kim Bhasin
Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Bankruptcies, Fashion and Apparel, Real Estate (Commercial), Shopping and Retail, Luxury Goods and Services, Saks Fifth Avenue, Hudson's Bay Co, Lord & Taylor, Baker, Richard A, Neiman Marcus GroupRichard Baker wanted to create a retail empire when he combined Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. About a year later, it filed for bankruptcy.