Two recent US cases have found the search giant is functioning as an illegal monopoly. This should be a turning pointIn less than a year, US courts have ruled that the world's most powerful tech company broke the law - twice.In August, a federal judge in Washington ruled that Google illegally maintained its search monopoly by locking up defaults on browsers and devices. In April, a federal judge in Virginia found that Google illegally monopolized the digital advertising market, manipulating auctions, restricting and stifling competitors. These two rulings, the most significant antitrust wins against a tech giant in decades, should be a turning point in the digital economy.Dr Courtney C Radsch is director of the Center for Journalism and Liberty at Open Markets Institute Continue reading...
A crop of conservative personalities such as Brett Cooper and Candace Owens, and outlets like Evie, are convincing young women of a gender-essentialist worldviewOn the most recent episode of her YouTube show, the rightwing commentator Brett Cooper joined the rest of the world in jeering Katy Perry, Gayle King and Lauren Sanchez's brief flight to space.These women were completely dependent on men who built this spacecraft," she said with a cheeky smirk. Frankly, we all are, because men built civilization. They built the homes that we live in, they built the studio that I am recording in ... the spaceships that all of these rich celebrities are flying around in." The difference between Cooper and feminists, she says, is I choose to acknowledge that and celebrate it and be grateful". Continue reading...
The United States Postal Service is now facing off with Trump and Elon Musk's Doge over privatizationUS postal workers - and many who depend on them - may have sighed in relief when the Trump-appointed postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, resigned last month. Now, postal workers and others fear the worst is to come.Many feared DeJoy, a prolific Trump donor and trucking logistics executive who pushed a 10-year consolidation plan at the agency, would be the man who would finally dismantle the United States Postal Service (USPS). Now the service is facing off with an empowered Trump and Elon Musk, his billionaire backer and chainsaw-wielding leader of his government job-cutting department of government efficiency" (Doge). Continue reading...
The Manchester City star is reported to be on his way to the United States at age 34, raising a tired trope once againKevin De Bruyne can't run any more. Or not like he used to anyway.That seems to be the verdict of his Manchester City manager, Pep Guardiola, who obliquely cited an absence of physicality" in his explanation for leaving De Bruyne out of the lineup against Real Madrid in February. Continue reading...
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For half a century, the GOP has embraced tax cuts for the rich. But as Americans turn against the idea, the party is dividedI am a gay woman who is moderately pro-choice - I know that there are some people in this room who don't believe that my marriage should have been legal," the rightwing impresario Bari Weiss told a Federalist Society gathering in 2023. And that's OK. Because we're all Americans who want lower taxes."The assembled conservatives guffawed at hearing the quiet part out loud: in this case, the admission that tax cuts for the rich have been the glue holding the US conservative movement together. Continue reading...
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Our writers take a look at the best prospects coming out of college, and which teams needs to nail their picks over the coming daysTravis Hunter, CB/WR. Any team picking No 1 overall needs a quarterback. And Cam Ward is the top quarterback prospect in the class. But the No 1 pick should be Hunter, the electrifying hybrid corner/receiver. Whether he can play both ways in the league is an open question, but wherever he lines up, Hunter will be a gamechanger at a premium position. OC Continue reading...
After the apparent defanging of the once critical talkshow host, can the president get more stars onside? Some nuts will be tougher to crack than othersIf President Trump invited you to the White House, would you go? This is the question US hacks and other media personalities have been asking themselves since the inauguration, an American version of that self-flattering British perennial: when Buckingham Palace calls, will you be buying a fascinator to accept the OBE? In both cases, no matter how pluckily anti-establishment an individual may have been to that point, the answer is often a resounding: you bet!First, the rationalisations. In the US context, respect for the office of the president", for which there is no British equivalent that doesn't prompt sniggering, is taken seriously enough that if the president calls, you don't turn him down. There's the standard argument in favour of engagement over boycott as a more constructive path to account-holding. And there is, for hacks, the perfectly reasonable rationale of pursuing the story. Of course, you're going to say yes if Trump calls. How could you not?Emma Brockes is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...
Allegations come days after Japanese authorities increased efforts to deter crimes by US servicemen on islandTwo US marines based on the Japanese island of Okinawa are being investigated for alleged rape, days after local authorities stepped up efforts to deter sexual and other crimes by US service personnel.A marine in his 20s is suspected of raping a Japanese woman in a bathroom at a US military base last month, while a second man, also a marine in his 20s, allegedly raped a woman at a base in January, according to media reports. Continue reading...
Donald Trump signs orders that attack funding and accreditation as his administration pushes to reshape colleges - key US politics stories from 23 AprilDonald Trump has signed executive orders targeting US universities as his administration seeks to reshape higher education institutions and crack down on diversity and inclusion efforts.The actions address foreign gifts to universities as well as college accreditation, which the president has referred to as his secret weapon" to upend US universities. Continue reading...
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Executive orders crack down on DEI at US universities but seek to increase affordability and retention at Black colleges. This blog is now closed.Nato secretary general Mark Rutte will visit the US and meet the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and the national security adviser, Mike Waltz, according to a media notice shared by the military alliance's press office.Rutte will visit the US on 24 and 25 April. Continue reading...
Moises Sandoval Mendoza receives lethal injection in Huntsville for death of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil TollesonA Texas man convicted of fatally strangling and stabbing a young mother more than 20 years ago was executed on Wednesday evening.Moises Sandoval Mendoza received a lethal injection at the state penitentiary in Huntsville and was pronounced dead at 6.40pm, authorities said. He was condemned for the March 2004 killing of 20-year-old Rachelle O'Neil Tolleson. Continue reading...
Actions attack funding and accreditation but also seek to increase affordability and retention at Black collegesDonald Trump signed executive orders on Wednesday targeting universities as his administration seeks to reshape higher-education institutions and continues to crack down on diversity and inclusion efforts.The actions address foreign gifts to universities, directing the federal government to enforce laws on the books" related to the disclosure of large donations, and college accreditation, which the president has referred to as his secret weapon" to upend US universities. While reading the orders to Trump, the White House staff secretary Will Scharf said that the third-party groups that accredit universities have relied on woke ideology" rather than merit. Continue reading...
Lawsuit rebukes claim that president can arbitrarily impose tariffs based on act intended for emergenciesA dozen states sued the Trump administration in the US court of international trade in New York on Wednesday to stop its tariff policy, saying it is unlawful and has brought chaos to the American economy.The lawsuit said the policy put in place by Donald Trump has been subject to his whims rather than the sound exercise of lawful authority". Continue reading...
Itamar Ben-Gvir, who has past convictions for supporting terrorism, attended fundraiser at Trump's resortIsrael's far-right national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir was set to address a meeting at Yale University, a day after being honored at a lavish dinner at Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort.Ben-Gvir, who has past convictions for supporting terrorism and was considered persona non grata under the Biden administration, attended a fundraising event at the Florida resort on Tuesday, where he told attendees about harsh new measures implemented against Palestinian prisoners. Continue reading...
Students traumatized by Parkland and Florida university shootings urge lawmakers not to roll back restrictionsFlorida students who were traumatized by the 2018 Parkland school shooting - and last week's deadly shooting at Florida State University - are urging lawmakers in the Republican-controlled statehouse not to roll back gun restrictions they passed in the wake of the killing at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school.Gun rights activists have been fighting to unravel the 2018 law since it was passed, including a provision that raised the state's minimum age to buy a gun to 21. Governor Ron DeSantis and some Republican lawmakers have argued that if an 18-year-old Floridian can serve in the military, they should be able to purchase a firearm. Continue reading...
A fast-moving wildfire has forced thousands of people in New Jersey to temporarily leave their homes, closed a stretch of main road and reached a shuttered nuclear power plant Continue reading...
Washington, like Moscow, prefers bilateral talks to a wider diplomatic process. Kyiv and other European governments are rightly alarmedThere could hardly be clearer evidence than DonaldTrump's latest attack on VolodymyrZelenskyy, and the US administration's last-minute snub of London peace talks, that what matters to him is not Ukrainian sovereignty and safety, nor the transatlanticalliance, but a deal with VladimirPutin. The US president says an agreement is close, with leakssuggesting that Washington would recognise annexed Crimea asRussian with Moscow giving little if anything in return. For Mr Trump, it is Ukraine's president who is harming negotiations by saying he will not recognise Russia's control.Mr Putin is passionate about maximising Russian interests, attentive to every detail, skilled in negotiations, and believes that time is on his side. MrTrump does not care about the outcome as long as he can claim he has ended the war, has little interest in thedetail and has a habit of handing over the prize at the start of the process. Continue reading...
Palestinian green-card holder was arrested by US immigration authorities in Vermont on 14 AprilMohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University who was detained by the Trump administration on 14 April, will have a hearing next week on his request for release on bail, a federal judge decided on Wednesday.Judge Geoffrey W Crawford extended a temporary restraining order issued by a separate judge last week to keep Mahdawi in Vermont. Immigration authorities have sent other foreign students arrested for their pro-Palestinian views to detention centers in Louisiana and Texas, jurisdictions typically overseen by more conservative judges. Continue reading...
The US vice-president, JD Vance, has said it is time for Moscow and Kyiv 'to either say yes or for the United States to walk away from this process' of talks to stop the fighting in Ukraine. He also suggested some territorial swaps' would be needed to freeze the conflict along roughly its current lines
Airplane manufacturer says it is lobbying Donald Trump over unfortunate' decision to impose tariffsBoeing will try to divert as many as 50 planes ordered by Chinese airlines to customers elsewhere after steep tariffs prompted by Donald Trump's trade war.The US manufacturer said it was confident it could find other buyers for the planes, but said it was lobbying Trump personally to resolve an unfortunate situation". Continue reading...
Whitney Plantation has two grants for Black history and culture terminated in furtherance of president's agenda'The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS ) has terminated two grants for Black history and culture that were awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a former plantation in Louisiana that focuses on the truths of slavery and the experiences of people who were enslaved. IMLS provides resources and support to libraries, archives and museums in all 50 states and territories.The termination comes as the Trump administration has both gutted federal funding aimed at arts and cultural institutions and has pushed to end state and federal initiatives in support of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). Recently, federal webpages that included references to thousands of figures, including Harriet Tubman, Indigenous codetalkers, the US army Maj Gen Charles Calvin Rogers, were either removed outright or scrubbed to exclude references to the aforementioned people. After public outcry, some of these pages were restored. Continue reading...
Abolitionists' have migrated out of the fringes and moved toward the center of movement alongside Republicans' penchant for punishmentSo far this year, lawmakers in at least 12 states have introduced legislation that would treat fetuses as people and leave women who have abortions vulnerable to being charged with homicide - a charge that, in several of these states, carries the death penalty.Once seen as politically toxic, this kind of legislation has become more popular in the years since Roe v Wade fell, erasing the national right to abortion. This likely comes as no surprise to Mary Ziegler, a professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law and one of the foremost commentators on the US abortion wars. The anti-abortion movement, she writes in her new book Personhood: The New Civil War Over Reproduction, has really always been a fetal-personhood movement" - one that is so emboldened, it is increasingly unconcerned with public opinion or even democratic norms. Continue reading...
Florida State punter Alex Mastromanno leads the latest crop of Australian prospects hoping to join the highest levels of American footballA mulleted former Collingwood VFL player with the ability to kick with both feet heads a crop of Australians seeking to prove themselves at the highest levels of American football, as the sport's spotlight shines on Green Bay for this week's NFL draft.An upcoming NFL regular season match in Melbourne - for which 90,000 people have already registered an interest - and the rise of former rugby league junior and now Super Bowl winner Jordan Mailata underline the growing reputation of the American code in Australia. But the momentum of the NFL in the homeland of AFL has not been universally welcomed, with some Americans dismayed by the dominance of mature punting imports within the college ranks. Continue reading...
Josh Shapiro described shattered glass, melted furniture and burnt prayer books after arson at family homePennsylvania's governor, Josh Shapiro, has for the first time revealed details of the April arson attack against his residence, describing shattered windows, melted furniture and artwork disintegrated into walls" after an intruder firebombed his family home following their Passover celebration.Windows were smashed in, and there was glass everywhere. Some tables were turned over, and others had just melted away," Shapiro wrote in an essay in the New York Times on Wednesday. The devastation was shocking, and to me, it did not appear to be an accident. The damage was too extreme. It looked like a bomb had gone off in the middle of our home." Continue reading...
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Judge gives Trump administration deadline to support its claims it doesn't have to return man to the USThe federal court that has found itself in a pitched battle with the executive branch over the summary removal of Salvadorian Kilmar Abrego Garcia despite a previous order against deportation has now accused the Trump administration of bad faith" in the case.US district judge Paula Xinis has given the Trump administration until 6pm ET on Wednesday to provide details to support its claims that it does not have to comply with orders to return the man to the US, where he was living and working in Baltimore, because of special privilege. Continue reading...
Pro-natalists aren't actually interested in making motherhood easier by offering things like affordable childcare. So what is their aim?Malcolm and Simone Collins, the pro-natalist couple who are reportedly consulting the Donald Trump administration on how to encourage American women to have more babies, are something of a deliberate heel: they often seem to be attempting to provoke the ire of their audience. The couple espouse the pro-natalism that is sweeping the political right with an explicit eugenicist tilt (self-styled elites", the Collins scan their IVF-generated embryos before their pregnancies, in an effort to select for features like high IQ). They dress in the severe black outfits of German modernists, with an emphasis on the German" part, and wear large, unusually shaped eyeglasses; Simone has also taken to wearing large bonnets that make her look like Mother Goose, or, in their less subtle versions, like an extra on The Handmaid's Tale." The pair met on Reddit.The founders of a pro-birth organization, the Collinses' assert that there is a crisis of declining birth rates in America. (In reality, the slight dip in America's birth rate in recent years is almost entirely due to the decline of teen pregnancies.) They aim to fix this in part by breeding as many of their own children as possible: they currently have four, blameless innocents they have cruelly burdened with names like Industry Americus" and Torsten Savage". But they seem to be more adept at siring media profiles of themselves, of which there have been many. The couple insist upon their own genetic superiority, like a breeding-obsessed Boris and Natasha. They aim to advance a future of more babies and - by their own terms - better ones: what Simone calls genetically selected humans". They must be doing it on purpose: no one could become so off-putting by accident.Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist. Continue reading...
Experts say Pentagon chief has endangered secrets of US defense department and given assistance to foreign spiesAs more develops about the US defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, and his repeated disclosures of sensitive military intelligence in unsecured Signal group chats, there are growing concerns his behavior has weakened the Pentagon in the eyes of its foreign adversaries and made him and his entourage a top espionage target.Allies, already concerned by Donald Trump's aggressive tariffs, have also begun to see the US as an intelligence-sharing liability. There are fears that the mounting firings and leak inquiries in Hegseth's orbit, along with his inability to manage these internal crises, exposes the entire global US war footing - especially, if a geopolitical and external crisis comes across his desk. Continue reading...
Francis was as outspoken as could be without naming names, when he criticized Vance in his February letter to US bishopsWe might never quite know what Pope Francis said to the US vice-president during their very brief meeting on Sunday. In the widely shared video clip, it was hardly audible. The morning after, Francis died, and Vance jetted to visit India, finding time to tweet that his heart went out to the millions of Christians who loved Francis (implying, I suppose, that not all Catholics loved him) and patronizing the dead pontiff by calling one of his homilies really quite beautiful").Francis had been as outspoken as could be without naming names, when he criticized Vance in his February letter to US bishops; but he was not just registering his rebuke of Trump and Vance's cruel treatment of refugees and migrants; he was reacting to a broader trend of instrumentalizing religion for nationalist and authoritarian populism. Continue reading...
Conservative commentators can't stand the idea that people they loathe can live fulfilling livesAn estate on Martha's Vineyard. A nine-bedroom house in DC. A family home in Chicago. Barack and Michelle Obama own about a gazillion dollars' worth of property. Turns out they don't need any of their fancy mansions, however, because they live rent-free in rightwing commentators' heads. While the right has always been fixated on trying to find fault with former president Obama, they have now become unhealthily obsessed with the idea that Barack and Michelle's marriage is failing. There's no evidence to support this, mind you. Just vibes.Picking up on these mysterious vibes is conservative commentator Megyn Kelly, who recently proclaimed on her podcast that she thinks Michelle and Barack married the wrong people". Many straws were grasped at to come to this conclusion - including the fact that Michelle once said that she likes going to bed early (wise woman) and her husband doesn't.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...
A lack of pitches, kit and coaching has held the sport back for far too long but Major League Cricket may be the answerIf you look south from the Manhattan end of Brooklyn Bridge, you can just about imagine the cricket field that used to be beneath what is now the South Seaport - and, if you squint, pretend that the people making their way around the bars and clubs and restaurants are the descendants of the same New York crowd who attended a match here between a local team and a London XI in 1751. Modern-day Manhattan is built on cricket pitches, among other things. They are there under the streets, among the farms and tenements cleared to make way for skyscrapers. There's another under Central Park, a third below the NYU Langone medical centre, where - in 1844 - Canada beat the USA by 23 runs in what is considered the first international fixture in all sport.People have been dreaming of reviving American cricket ever since it died during the civil war, more than 160 years ago. It was killed by a shortage of pitches, kit and coaching, and by the rise of baseball, the great American pastime. Baseball had two advantages. It was easier to play - all you needed was a bat, a ball, four bases and a field - and if you were good at it, you could make a lot more money. Plenty of professional cricketers made the switch. The brothers George and Harry Wright, who had both played for St George's Cricket Club in New York, where their father was groundsman, were founding members of the first pro baseball team, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. Both are in the Hall of Fame, and Harry is still known as the father of the game". Early proprietors such as AG Spalding, another ex-cricketer, sold baseball as the indigenous American sport. It was the patriotic choice. Cricket was inescapably English. Continue reading...
He was no liberal, but Francis embodied a spirit of international solidarity that is in alarmingly short supplyPope Francis died hours after meeting the US vice-president, JD Vance. If that wasn't a bad enough omen, the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump's acolyte and self-styled Christian nationalist", appeared to welcome the pope's death as a sign of evil" being defeated".In fact, despite a series of clashes with the Trump White House, Francis was no liberal. While refraining from judging homosexuality, he explicitly disapproved of the liberalising synodal path embarked on by the Catholic church in Germany, which ruled in 2023 that church employees could not be sacked for entering same-sex relationships or remarrying after divorce. On abortion, euthanasia, women and LGBTQ+ rights, Francis betrayed the high hopes that liberals and progressives had bestowed upon him. Continue reading...
No music, no script, no narration, no editing - slow TV like this is exactly the balm we need these daysDo you reach for your phone first thing in the morning as soon as you wake up? Me too. Only, for the past week, it's not my WhatsApp, email or social media I've been desperate to check, but how many moose have managed to swim across the Angerman river overnight.I know. I need more going on in my life, right? How else to explain my fascination with watching dozens of Swedish moose (yes, moose is the plural of moose, sadly not meese") undertake their annual spring migration to summer pastures? Continue reading...
In today's newsletter: As world leaders gather in the UK this week, any hope of breaking the deadlock when Russia and Ukraine refuse to compromise could mean the US walks awayGood morning.Representatives from the US, Britain and France are gathering in London today to resume discussions with Ukrainian officials on a possible ceasefire in the war. Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, was scheduled to attend but announced at the last minute he would no longer be present - the White House's Ukraine envoy, Keith Kellogg, will be there in his place.Tariffs | The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned of a major negative shock" from Donald Trump's tariffs and has cut growth forecasts for every major global economy. The lender cut the UK's expected growth from 1.6% to 1.1%, a downward trend mirrored across the world.British Steel | Redundancy plans have been halted after the government took control of the Scunthorpe steelworks this month, potentially saving up to 2,700 jobs.US | Republican lawmakers have followed Donald Trump's lead and rallied behind Pete Hegesth, the beleaguered US secretary of defence, who has defended his use of the Signal messaging app to share details of US military strikes on Yemen to a group including his wife and brother.UK | Number 10 has said that Keir Starmer no longer argues that trans women are women. Starmer said yesterday that he welcomed the real clarity" of last week's supreme court ruling on gender recognition.Health | More than 150,000 additional people in England are living with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) - or ME - than previously thought, with the total number thought to be about 404,000. Continue reading...
Small increase amounts to 3.6 million births and an increase in the women aged 40-44 giving birthThe number of births in the US increased slightly in 2024 to roughly 3.6 million, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The small increase of 1% in the number of births comes amid a long-term decline that began during the Great Recession, in about 2008. The provisional data was released on Wednesday. Continue reading...
Al Gore launched an attack on the Trump administration saying there were 'important lessons' to be learned from similarities with the early rise of Nazi Germany. In a speech at a climate week event in San Francisco, Gore said: 'We've already seen, by the way, how popular authoritarian leaders have used migrants as scapegoats and have fanned the fires of xenophobia to fuel their own rise to power, and power-seeking is what this is all about' Continue reading...
Ex-advertising executive, who hosted a Fox News show and has criticised Kamala Harris, will stand as a RepublicanDavid Cameron's former top adviser Steve Hilton has joined the 2026 race for California governor, running as a Republican to replace the Democrats' Gavin Newsom, who is prevented by law from seeking a third term.Hilton, who hosted a show on Fox News for six years, launched his campaign with the theme Golden Again: Great Jobs, Great Homes, Great Kids". His campaign said Hilton would be reinforcing his commitment to positive, practical solutions instead of today's ideology and dogma", and that his brand of positive populism" would focus on helping working families. Continue reading...
Donald Trump says tariffs on China will be dropped substantially' as IMF warns of major negative shock' from tariffs - key US politics stories from 22 AprilDonald Trump has said tariffs on goods from China will be reduced substantially" but won't be zero", after US treasury secretary Scott Bessent said he expects a de-escalation" in the trade war between the world's two largest economies.Trump placed import taxes of 145% on China, which countered with 125% tariffs on US goods, causing volatility in the stock market and concern about slowing global economic growth. Continue reading...
Delegation visits jails where Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk are being held and denounce authoritarian' TrumpCongressional lawmakers denounced the treatment of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, the students being detained by US immigration authorities for their pro-Palestinian activism, as a national disgrace" during a visit to the two facilities in Louisiana where each are being held.We stand firm with them in support of free speech," the Louisiana congressman Troy Carter, who led the delegation, said during a press conference after the visits on Tuesday. They are frightened, they're concerned, they want to go home." Continue reading...
US health secretary says Americans should eat zero' sugar and announces plans to eliminate eight synthetic food dyesThe US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr on Tuesday called sugar poison" and recommended that Americans eat zero" added sugar in their food, while acknowledging that the federal government was unlikely to be able to eliminate it from products.Kennedy, however, said that better labeling was needed for foods and that new government guidelines on nutrition would recommend people avoid sugar completely. Continue reading...
President says tariffs on China could be lowered days after lashing out over bank's reluctance to cut interest ratesDonald Trump has said he has no plans to fire the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, and suggested the draconian tariffs the US has imposed on China could be lowered.The president's comments come days after he called the central bank boss a major loser" whose termination cannot come fast enough" and defended his tariffs after they triggered stock market sell-offs. Continue reading...
New taskforce demands names in rooting out policies, procedures ... or understandings hostile to Christian views'The veterans affairs department (VA) is ordering staff to report colleagues for instances of anti-Christian bias" to a newly established taskforce, as part of Donald Trump's push to reshape government policy on religious expression.The VA secretary, Doug Collins, in an internal email seen by the Guardian, said the department had launched a taskforce to review the Biden administration's treatment of Christians". Continue reading...
Dollar also recovers after Monday's sell-off prompted by Donald Trump's attack on Federal Reserve chairGold has climbed above $3,500 an ounce for the first time while stocks on Wall Street and the dollar rose following Monday's sell-off prompted by Donald Trump's blistering attack on the Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell.Spot gold reached the record price of $3,500.01 (2,620) on Tuesday, extending a rally that has pushed bullion up from $2,623 an ounce at the start of this year. Continue reading...
Jury finds newspaper not liable for allegedly defaming former Alaska governor in 2017 editorial about gun controlSarah Palin on Tuesday lost in the retrial of her defamation case against the New York Times - a second defeat in the efforts by the former Republican vice-presidential candidate.A federal jury in New York deliberated for two hours then found the newspaper not liable for allegedly defaming Palin in a 2017 editorial about gun control. Palin appeared dejected as she left the courthouse in Manhattan. Continue reading...
Change to requirements to serve in combat roles expected to drastically cut number of womenThe US army unveiled plans on Monday to require a fitness test with identical physical standards for men and women in combat positions after the defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, ordered the elimination of gender-based fitness requirements in frontline roles.The revamped army fitness test, which replaces the combat fitness test, will be sex-neutral" and force female soldiers in 21 combat specialties to meet the same benchmarks as men - a change expected to drastically cut the number of women qualifying for these positions. Continue reading...
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