President Donald Trump indicated that the "full benefit" of his tariff policies has not yet taken hold, suggesting that stockpiles of goods amassed to avoid tariffs are dwindling

Democratic strategist James Carville called for his party to embrace a "economic rage" platform and abandon performative woke politics to win back rural voters.

House lawmakers express frustration after five censure attempts in one week, calling the disciplinary tool "playground nonsense" that diverts attention from legislative priorities.

US-backed Gaza aid group transitions work after proving more effective than U.N. agencies reportedly plagued by corruption and Hamas support in Gaza Strip.

Coordinated burglary ring targets affluent Mequon neighborhoods as Wisconsin law enforcement agencies unite to combat professional theft groups operating regionally.

Vanes Martirosyan, a former American Olympic boxer and a pro who had a few marquee bouts, has died after a battle with skin cancer, officials said. He was 39.

Rising restaurant prices are forcing Americans toward fast-food chains, says Andrew Zimmern, celebrity chef. He wants to see affordable menus and smaller portions.

New York City mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani vowed to maintain sanctuary city policies despite recent White House meeting with President Donald Trump.

Fifty of 303 kidnapped students from Nigeria's St. Mary's School have escaped after Friday's attack. Pope Francis calls for immediate hostage release.

In a career spanning nearly seven decades and more than 300 productions, the actor became one of India’s best known and most versatile screen stars.

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The Grammy Award-winning singer and star of the movie “The Harder They Come” died of pneumonia, his wife said.

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We explain the Trump administration’s latest push to end the war.

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Plus, a new crash-test dummy.

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Former New York Mets star Darryl Strawberry thanked President Donald Trump for his decision to pardon him during a church sermon in Oklahoma.

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Trump administration labels Maduro as member of foreign terrorist organization and could impose fresh sanctions on country

Back to some domestic news and the “department of government efficiency” (Doge) has apparently been dissolved with eight months still remaining on its contract, ending a drawn-out campaign of invading federal agencies and firing thousands of federal workers.

“That doesn’t exist,” office of personnel management (OPM) director Scott Kupor told Reuters earlier this month when asked about Doge’s status, adding that it was no longer a “centralized entity”.

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Lord Dannatt and Lord Evans of Watford were filmed breaking rules in undercover footage recorded by Guardian

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Two long-serving peers are to be suspended from the House of Lords after a parliamentary watchdog ruled that they had broken lobbying rules.

Richard Dannatt, the former head of the British army, and David Evans (Lord Evans of Watford), were filmed breaking the rules in undercover footage recorded by the Guardian.

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The two remaining members of the groundbreaking, politically revolutionary group talk about the state of hip-hop and the US government’s attacks on people of color

For the first time in 35 years, Billboard’s Hot 100 chart does not include a rap song among its top 40 hit records. Anyone who’s been listening to the music for at least that long can list myriad reasons why that’s now the case: all the beats sound the same, all the artists are industry plants, all the lyrics are barely intelligible etc. For hip-hop forefather Abiodun Oyewole, though, it boils down to this: “We embraced ‘party and bullshit’, my brother.”

Fifty-seven years ago, on what would have been Malcolm X’s 43rd birthday, Oyewole cliqued up with two young poets at a writers’ workshop in East Harlem’s Mount Morris Park (now Marcus Garvey Park) to form what would become the Last Poets, a collective of bard revolutionaries. They outfitted themselves in African prints, performed over the beat of a congo drum and advocated for populism in their verses. The group has had many configurations over the years, but Oyewole, Jalal Mansur Nuriddin and Umar Bin Hassan abide as the standout members. The trio is all over the band’s self-titled first album – which was released in 1970 and peaked at No 29 on the Billboard 200. Their follow-up album, This Is Madness, made them ripe targets for J Edgar Hoover’s Cointelpro campaign against the emerging figures the then-FBI director deemed politically subversive. Notably, Oyewole could not contribute to that album because he had been incarcerated for an attempted robbery of a Ku Klux Klan headquarters, serving 2 1/2 years of a three-year sentence. (He was trying to raise bail for activists who had been arrested for striking back at the klan.)

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Findings are respite for German conglomerate facing sliding sales of blockbuster drugs and US legal challenges

Political elites in Europe’s ‘mature’ democracies warn of external threats – but at home they normalise racism and undermine the rule of law

Europe’s leaders cannot stop talking about democracy. President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to kickstart a democratic “resurgence”, and Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, has warned of an “axis” of autocratic states targeting liberal democracy in Europe. Having promised to “fight” for what she calls European “values”, Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, has just announced a new “democracy shield” and a Centre for Democratic Resilience to prevent foreign interference and deal with external threats. I keep hoping for similar scrutiny of democratic backsliding within the EU – but so far it has not happened.

Foreign interference, disinformation and the creeping illiberalism of Hungary, Poland and Slovakia deserve attention. But lost in this fretting is a more inconvenient truth: within Europe’s “mature” democracies, there is a steady corrosion of the rule of law, a degradation of political discourse and the normalisation of racism, xenophobia and discrimination.

Shada Islam is a Brussels-based commentator on EU affairs. She runs New Horizons Project, a strategy, analysis and advisory company

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Experts say councils face limits on cuts as Reform’s savings on IT deals, office moves and EV projects are disputed

Reform UK has ignored requests to share the evidence for its claim to have saved £331m since it took charge of 10 English councils in May, prompting questions over whether the figure is true.

The party has boasted that it had achieved £331m worth of savings at English councils it controls. Warning of a “blob” of vested interests devoted to “ripping off” taxpayers, Richard Tice, the new head of the party’s self-styled ‘Doge’ cost-cutting unit, added: “We’re going to war with these people”.

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For more than a decade a massive Ontario research lab has been importing dogs for scientific experimentation from a U.S. breeder with a history of serious animal cruelty allegations. Read More

A bipartisan Senate duo is aiming to reduce the influx of political mail to households by cutting off a key federal subsidy that boosts Republican and Democratic party committees.

"I’m not running for President and never said I wanted to and have only laughed about it when anyone would mention it."