Nigel Farage’s far-right Reform Party just made massive gains in UK elections. And now they’re drawing up plans to tap Trump donors to power Farage to Prime Minister in 2029.But we have a plan to stop

Reform wins full control of Durham, Staffordshire and Lincolnshire County Councils as votes are counted for more than 1,600 seats in England.

Swiss banks say they have seen a surge of interest and business from high-net-worth Americans opening investment accounts in recent months.

Trans women detained by the British Transport Police will be strip searched by male officers, not female, following the recent Supreme Court ruling.

The current NHS guidance means trans people are accommodated according to their presentation, but Wednesday’s ruling now means wards must accommodate patients based on their biological sex

For every Palestinian Israel freed in the ceasefire deal, it has apprehended 15 more.

The global trading system is only one example of the administration tearing something apart, only to reveal that it has no plan for how to replace it.

A few carmakers have closed factories, laid off workers or shifted production in response to the auto tariffs that took effect last week.

On March 23, Israeli forces killed a group of Palestinian rescue workers in Rafah, Gaza. Here are their stories.

The page had been edited to remove material about the antislavery leader. Other government pages have been changed or deleted amid efforts to scrub references to diversity and inclusion.

Traders leaving the New York Stock Exchange were trying to make sense of another day of volatility

Unbelievable. Keir Starmer has handed Donald Trump a letter from King Charles, inviting him for a second state visit to the UK. It’s totally unprecedented, and should not go ahead.  This is the...

A 25% levy on all foreign cars imported into America came into force on Thursday.

President Donald Trump left Washington on Thursday to fly back to Mar-a-Lago for the weekend. By Friday morning, the stock market was in freefall for a second day in a row. From his Truth Social page,...

Far-right activist Laura Loomer, who met with Trump on Wednesday, said Gen Timothy Haugh was fired because he was "disloyal".

United States Imports from Russia was US$3.27 Billion during 2024, according to the United Nations COMTRADE database on international trade. United States Imports from Russia - data, historical chart ...

Britain wins relatively favourable treatment as president accuses trading partners of looting and pillaging US

Update (25 March 2025): We’ve just filed a landmark legal claim against Reform UK at the High Court.

The Trump administration seemed to hold back immediately after the January wildfires. But its multipronged assault on California has now begun in earnest.

Most of the grants related to sexual minorities, with topics including HIV prevention, cancer, youth suicide and bone health

Preach, Rachel!

Specifics of deal remain unclear, including how X’s leaders will be integrated into new company Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence firm has acquired Musk’s X – the social media platform formerly known as Twitter – for $33bn, marking the latest twist in the billionaire’s rapid consolidation of power. The all-stock deal announced on Friday combines two of Musk’s multiple portfolio companies, which also include automaker Tesla and SpaceX, and potentially eases Musk’s ability to train his AI model known as Grok. Continue reading...

The defense secretary’s office has ordered that some books be removed from circulation in its library, and the academy has ended the use of affirmative action in admissions.

Body of team leader found almost a week after six rescuers went missing, Gaza’s civil defence agency says Israel’s military has admitted it fired on ambulances in the Gaza Strip after identifying them as “suspicious vehicles”, with Hamas condemning it as a “war crime” that killed at least one person. The incident took place last Sunday in the Tal al-Sultan neighbourhood in the southern city of Rafah, close to the Egyptian border. Continue reading...

The university is fined by the higher education regulator for failing to uphold freedom of speech.

“It’s literally a 180. There was no warning," said one former recipient.

Tony Blair says he did not know military action would be disastrous. In truth, he was warned many times

Bea Arthur, who served in the Marine Corps, has had her wartime contribution scrubbed from the Department of Defence (DOD) website. The URL now reads "DEIBefore".

Calls for chancellor to exclude defence from rules or raise taxes in response to spending pressure at spring statement

The electric carmaker’s warning about tariffs comes despite its boss's key position in the Trump administration.

Measures including linking the pay of senior civil servants to performance are expected to be unveiled this week.

Police detain a man after he scales the Elizabeth Tower in Westminster on Saturday morning.

YouTube video by Kyiv Independent

A jab at Reagan?

Sir Keir Starmer handed Trump a written letter from King Charles III earlier this week inviting him to on a second state visit, but many Brits are against the idea

The UK, France and Ukraine will work on a ceasefire plan to present to the United States, the prime minister has said, in the wake of Volodymyr Zelenskyy's White House clash with Donald Trump.

YouTube video by MSNBC