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• Retirees keep their eyes on the economy as Trump's tariffs roil financial markets

  05-04-2025 00:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  With financial markets roiling as President Donald Trump unveiled his latest tariffs this week, the economy has been top of mind for many retirees
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump again blames Zelensky for ‘starting’ Ukraine war over Kyiv’s Patriot offer

  15-04-2025 05:11 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump once again falsely blames Zelensky for starting Putin's invasion
  
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• How Harvard became the first university to push back against Trump’s campus crackdown and multi-billion-dollar funding threats

  15-04-2025 04:31 via independent.co.uk
  
  Harvard is the first of six Ivy League schools threatened with funding cuts to formally oppose the Trump administration’s demands, a key early battle as 60 universities face investigation
  
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• A bigger hole: Trump has already spent $155bn more than Biden. Musk now claims DOGE only saved $150bn

  15-04-2025 04:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Trump administration has already spent $155 billion more than former President Joe Biden did over the same period of time after their inaugurations, according to Treasury Department data. And Elon Musk is now claiming that his Department of Government Efficiency has only managed to save $150 billion.
  
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• Australia election 2025 live: Albanese says Plibersek would be ‘senior cabinet minister’ in re-elected Labor government

  15-04-2025 02:39 via theguardian.com
  The PM won’t commit to Plibersek staying in the environment portfolio if Labor wins on 3 May. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBattle of housing supply: who’s building more?Both parties have said they’re the ones doing more on housing supply, while experts and economists have said neither is doing enough to address the supply versus demand issue.What we’re doing is dealing with supply as well as demand. The Coalition
  
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• Trump administration freezes $2.3bn in funds after Harvard defies demands – live

  15-04-2025 02:38 via theguardian.com
  
  Announcement by education department follows message by university president saying it will not ‘yield’ to pressure campaignHarvard says it will not ‘yield’ to Trump demands Donald Trump will meet this morning with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, at 11am ET at the White House.Referring to the cost of imprisoning the detainees in El Salvador, Trump told reporters on Sunday about Bukele:I think he’s doing a fantastic job, and he’s taking care of a l
  
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• The Coalition has attacked the teals for voting with the Greens in parliament. What does the data show?

  15-04-2025 02:28 via theguardian.com
  Highlighting the simple correlation between voting records of teals and Greens ignores much of the contextPolls tracker; election guide; full federal election coverageAnywhere but Canberra; interactive electorates guideListen to our new narrative podcast series: GinaGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe Coalition has run a wave of attack ads against the teal independents. Since January it has spent $137,000 on Facebook ads via its “teals revealed” page.
  
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• Trump officials stonewall Congress on queries on detained US citizens and green-card holders in migrant crackdown

  15-04-2025 01:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Representatives concerned about American citizens being caught in immigration dragnet
  
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• Trump administration stonewalls Congress on questions about immigration crackdown on US citizens and green-card holders

  15-04-2025 01:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  Representatives concerned about American citizens being caught in immigration dragnet
  
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• Columbia student activist and green card holder arrested during citizenship interview

  15-04-2025 01:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Mohsen Mahdawi is among latest Palestinian international students targeted by Trump administration for their activism
  
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• Mike Johnson opens the door to Medicaid cuts and the resulting political fallout

  15-04-2025 01:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Opponents of GOP budget plan hope reality of Medicaid cuts for rural and low-income Americans will drive Republican defections
  
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• Pam Bondi wants 40 years for man accused of firebombing Telsa showroom in New Mexico

  15-04-2025 01:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Jamison Wagner accused of spray painting graffiti reading ‘Die Elon’ and ‘Tesla Nazi Inc’
  
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• US begins inquiry into pharmaceutical and chip imports in bid to impose tariffs

  15-04-2025 01:14 via theguardian.com
  
  Notices show Trump administration setting stage for levies on both sectors on national security groundsThe Trump administration is kicking off investigations into imports of pharmaceuticals and semiconductors as part of a bid to impose tariffs on both sectors on national security grounds, notices posted to the Federal Register on Monday showed.The filings scheduled to be published on Wednesday set a 21-day deadline from that date for the submission of public comment on the issue and indicate the
  
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• JD Vance fumbles Ohio State’s national title trophy during White House visit

  15-04-2025 01:04 via theguardian.com
  Vice-president unable to hang on to trophyBuckeyes were celebrating last season’s title winJD Vance, the man entrusted as America’s back-up in times of emergency, may not be the safest pair of hands if Monday’s events are anything to go by. The vice-president ended the Ohio State football team’s visit to the White House by fumbling the team’s national championship trophy.After laudatory speeches by Donald Trump, Buckeyes coach Ryan Day and Vance on the South Lawn, t
  
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• Scholar spared prison in US case alleging China spies on dissidents abroad

  15-04-2025 01:03 via independent.co.uk
  
  A history scholar convicted of spying on Chinese dissidents by ingratiating himself as a sympathizer has been spared prison time by a U.S. judge
  
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• ‘Welcome green shoots’: warm March weather gives 1.1% lift to UK retail sales

  15-04-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Spring sunshine boosted spending on gardening, DIY and food products, but households are still ‘prudently budgeting’ as bills riseWarm weather in March helped give a lift to retailers despite a late Easter, with sales of gardening, DIY, food, and health and beauty products getting a boost from the spring sunshine.Purchases for Mother’s Day also helped retail sales climb 1.1% last month, according to a British Retail Consortium-KPMG survey, keeping pace with February despite tra
  
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• UK riots led to deterioration in asylum seekers’ mental health, says report

  15-04-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Mental Health Foundation says civil unrest last summer left many fearful of attacks by far-right protestersLast summer’s riots, which took place after the murder of three girls at a Southport dance class, led to a deterioration in the mental health of asylum seekers, with many becoming fearful of walking down the street in case they were targeted by far-right protesters, according to a report.The report from the Mental Health Foundation, published on Tuesday, identified a decline in the me
  
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• The Latest: Both the US and El Salvador refuse to return wrongly deported man to the US

  15-04-2025 01:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump’s top advisers and Nayib Bukele, the president of El Salvador, said Monday that they had no basis for the small Central American nation to return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongly deported there last month
  
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• ‘Silicon Six’ accused of avoiding almost $278bn in US corporation taxes over 10 years

  15-04-2025 01:01 via theguardian.com
  
  Analysis finds Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft averaged 18.8%, compared with 29.7% US averageThe big American tech firms known as the “Silicon Six” have been accused of paying almost $278bn (£211bn) less corporate income tax in the past decade compared with the statutory rate for US companies making the same profits.Amazon, Meta, Alphabet, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft generated $11tn of revenue and $2.5tn of profits over the past 10 years. Continue reading.
  
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• Australia election 2025 live: Dutton asked again if he’ll help his kids buy their first homes; Greens to promise free school lunches

  15-04-2025 00:45 via theguardian.com
  
  Opposition leader brought his son Harry on the campaign trail yesterday, to tell reporters how hard it is for young people to save up for a home. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBattle of housing supply: who’s building more?Both parties have said they’re the ones doing more on housing supply, while experts and economists have said neither is doing enough to address the supply versus demand issue.What we’re doing is dealin
  
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• Karmelo Anthony granted house arrest over fatal stabbing of Austin Metcalf as family reveals plans for donated funds

  15-04-2025 00:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  Karmelo Anthony, 17, has been charged in the stabbing death of Austin Metcalf, 17, following a confrontation at a Frisco, Texas, track meet
  
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• Location of Palestinian green card holder unknown after Ice arrest in Vermont – live

  15-04-2025 00:19 via theguardian.com
  
  Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested by Ice in Colchester, Vermont, while he was attending a naturalization interview, his lawyer saidPalestinian green card holder and Columbia student detained by IceDonald Trump will meet this morning with El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, at 11am ET at the White House.Referring to the cost of imprisoning the detainees in El Salvador, Trump told reporters on Sunday about Bukele:I think he’s doing a fantastic job, and he’s taking care of a lot of p
  
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• Australia election 2025 live: Dutton says he doesn’t want house prices to go down under his housing plan; Greens to promise free school lunches

  15-04-2025 00:16 via theguardian.com
  Opposition leader yesterday said he wanted to see ‘sustainable’ growth in house prices across the market. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastBattle of housing supply: who’s building more?Both parties have said they’re the ones doing more on housing supply, while experts and economists have said neither is doing enough to address the supply versus demand issue.What we’re doing is dealing with supply as well as dem
  
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• JD Vance mocked as he fumbles giant championship trophy at White House celebration

  14-04-2025 23:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Onlookers gasped loudly as Vance scrambled to retrieve the base of the 35-pound trophy from the floor and put it back together
  
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• Warwick Davis’s wife Samantha died hours before hospital discharge, inquest finds

  14-04-2025 23:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor and dwarfism charity founder suffered cardiac arrest after surgery complications, coroner concludesThe actor and campaigner Samantha Davis, the wife of Harry Potter star Warwick Davis, died after suffering a cardiac arrest hours before a hospital was planning to discharge her, an inquest has found.Davis, who co-founded Little People UK – the dwarfism charity known as “an essential resource for little people and their families” – died aged 53 at London’s Univer
  
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• Warwick Davis’s wife died as hospital planned to discharge her, inquest finds

  14-04-2025 23:39 via theguardian.com
  
  Actor and dwarfism charity founder Samantha Davis suffered cardiac arrest after surgery complications, coroner concludesThe actor and campaigner Samantha Davis, the wife of Harry Potter star Warwick Davis, died after suffering a cardiac arrest hours before a hospital was planning to discharge her, an inquest has found.Davis, who co-founded Little People UK – the dwarfism charity known as “an essential resource for little people and their families” – died aged 53 at London
  
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• Trump officials step up defiance over man wrongly deported to El Salvador

  14-04-2025 23:36 via theguardian.com
  
  Administration advances new misrepresentations of US supreme court order in case of Kilmar Abrego GarciaThe Trump administration escalated its stubborn defiance against securing the release of a man wrongly deported to El Salvador on Monday, advancing new misrepresentations of a US supreme court order.The supreme court last week unanimously ordered the administration to “facilitate” the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was supposed to have been protected from deportation to El Sa
  
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• White House proposes drastic cuts to State Department and funding for UN, NATO and other groups

  14-04-2025 23:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  The White House’s Office of Management and Budget has proposed gutting the State Department’s budget by almost 50%, closing a number of overseas diplomatic missions, and eliminating funding for nearly all international organizations, including the United Nations, many of its agencies and for NATO headquarters
  
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• Trump launches queasy market on a wild tariff rollercoaster ride

  14-04-2025 23:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Trump’s constant tariff changes are keeping the world and economy off balance, warns Eric Garcia
  
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• Trump launches a queasy market on a wild tariff rollercoaster ride

  14-04-2025 23:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Analysis: Trump’s constant tariff changes are keeping the world and economy off balance, warns Eric Garcia
  
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