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Wall Street Journal article saying headhunters were contacted branded ‘absolutely false’ by chair Robyn Denholm Tesla has denied a report that its board sought to replace Elon Musk as its chief executive amid a backlash against his rightwing politics and declining car sales. Robyn Denholm, the chair of the board at the electric carmaker, said […]

Jolly humouring and kind words guarantee nothing from this White House. Right now Walmart has more clout than the UK It’s not funny, of course – livelihoods if not actual lives depend on reaching a workable accord. But the news that President Trump has probably stiffed the UK into a second- or third-tier boarding group […]

Accord establishes joint investment fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction; homeland security secretary issues fresh threat to Salvadorian Kilmar Ábrego García – key US politics stories from Wednesday 30 April Ukraine and the US have signed a deal pushed by President Donald Trump that will give the US preferential access to Ukrainian mineral resources and fund investment […]

Administration in touch with Nayib Bukele over detention of wrongly deported man, according to two people The Trump administration has been in touch directly with the Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele in recent days about the detention of Kilmar Ábrego García, the man wrongly deported to a notorious prison in El Salvador, according to two people […]

Move seals a deal to create a fund the Trump administration says will begin to repay roughly $175bn provided to Ukraine The US and Kyiv have signed an agreement to share revenues from the future sale of Ukrainian minerals and rare earths, sealing a deal that Donald Trump has said will provide an economic incentive […]

Red and navy hats were strategically placed as Trump’s cabinet gushed over 100 presidential days like no other There were navy blue and red baseball caps up and down the table, strategically placed in front of every cabinet member, and each bearing the message “Gulf of America”. Yet the unorthodox collection of headwear, embroidered with […]

Lawmakers including Chuck Schumer denounce ‘failure’ on economy, costs, foreign policy, democracy and middle class Dozens of Democratic lawmakers gathered on the steps of the Capitol on Wednesday to accuse Donald Trump of spending his first 100 days damaging the US economy and democracy with the help of “complicit” congressional Republicans. The speeches by party […]

Funding will not be continued next year after bill signed in 2022 helped schools hire more mental health workers The Trump administration is moving to cancel $1bn in school mental health grants, saying they reflect the priorities of the previous administration. Grant recipients were notified on Tuesday that the funding will not be continued after […]

With seven-day pause expiring Wednesday, Paula Xinis says administration must provide sworn testimony by May Denied, detained, deported: the faces of Trump’s immigration crackdown A federal judge on Wednesday again directed the Trump administration to provide information about its efforts so far, if any, to comply with her order to retrieve Kilmar Ábrego García from […]

Oklahoma case is part of a broader push to erode separation of church and state, and a test of role of religion in schools The US supreme court’s conservative majority seemed open to establishing the country’s first public religious charter school as they weighed a case Wednesday that could have significant ramifications on the separation […]

We are tottering on the edge of dictatorship. Powerful voices across institutions, from politics to academia and religion, must speak out We have witnessed the first 100 days of the odious Trump regime. The US constitution is in peril. Civil and human rights are being trampled upon. The economy is in disarray. If today the […]

Four ex-heads of US embassies in nations that swung from democracies to dictatorships say landscape eerily familiar The US is treading the path followed by democracies that descended into authoritarianism and dictatorship, former ambassadors to countries that underwent autocratic takeovers have warned. At a panel discussion held to mark Donald Trump’s first 100 days in […]

The president has signed orders to ban gender transitions for people under 19, end birthright citizenship and more Donald Trump signed 140 executive orders in the first 100 days of his second term, including orders aimed at enacting steep tariffs, ending birthright citizenship, curbing DEI and “gender radicalism” in the military and pardoning January 6 […]

US homeland security secretary said Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador ‘not under our control’ Kristi Noem, the US homeland security secretary, said that if Kilmar Ábrego García was sent back to the US, the Donald Trump administration “would immediately deport him again”. Noem repeated White House assertions about Ábrego García, a Salvadorian man […]

US president lashed out at Terry Moran in tense TV interview, which included questions about deportations and tariffs US politics live – latest updates Donald Trump lashed out at an ABC journalist in a tense TV interview to mark 100 days of his second term in office, in which among other confrontations he angrily pushed […]

Mahdawi, a lawful permanent US resident, was detained and ordered deported by the Trump administration despite not being charged with a crime US politics live – latest updates A federal judge in Vermont ordered the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian green-card holder and student at Columbia University who was detained and ordered deported by […]

A last-minute supreme court intervention prevented Javier Salazar from getting deported, but the battle is far from over When 19-year-old Javier Salazar was loaded on to a bus from an immigrant detention center in northern Texas, he had no idea where he was being taken. He wondered if he was being transferred to another facility […]

The first few months have seen record-breaking use of executive powers – here are some of the outlying trends Trump 100 days: inside Trump’s whirlwind start to his second presidency When reading a chart, an outlier is often the first thing you notice. The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s second term has been full […]

The vestiges of the US’s democracy are crumpling to the ground. We don’t yet know what will be erected in its place It’s possible that later, when we know more about how the Trump regime reshapes the US and about how it ultimately comes to an end, we will look back at this moment in […]

Drop comes amid a huge fall in consumer sentiment which in April dropped 32% to lowest level since 1990 recession The US economy shrank in the first three months of Donald Trump’s second term as the president sought to roll out an aggressive trade strategy, claiming that sweeping tariffs on the world would strengthen the […]