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Trump is ‘killing jobs and jacking up prices’, Democrats say amid tariff fallout and weak employment growth – US politics live

Democratic lawmakers have slammed Trump’s “reckless and chaotic” tariff policies and federal cuts after today’s weak jobs report revealed that 258,000 fewer jobs were created in May and June than previously thought.Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said on X:...

My Oxford Year review – so-so Netflix romance trades on anglophilia

Call it the Bridgerton effect, which itself was arguably the result of The Crown effect, but the Netflix algorithm is currently aimed toward the UK with moonier eyes than usual. Last month saw Lena Dunham recount her days as...

Israeli author David Grossman says his country is committing genocide in Gaza

The award-winning Israeli author David Grossman has described his country’s campaign in Gaza as a genocide and said he now “can’t help” but use the term.“I ask myself: how did we get here?” the celebrated writer and peace activist...

Maryland boy dies after being trapped in storm drain as rains drench east coast

A 13-year-old boy has died after he was trapped in a storm drain in Maryland during heavy rainfall and flooding on the east coast, officials said.Kids were playing in the rain on Thursday in a common area between apartment...

Trump steps up attacks on Fed’s independence amid interest rates row

Donald Trump called on top Federal Reserve officials to seize control from its chair Jerome Powell if he fails to cut interest rates, stepping up his extraordinary attacks on the central bank’s independence.The US president called Powell “a stubborn...

‘Pretty dark right now’: Major League Rugby reels as two more teams face funding crunch

Major League Rugby has endured a tough week with a merger and a withdrawal reducing the competition to nine teams, but the US men’s professional rugby union competition could yet fall to just seven entrants if two more teams...

‘Everything we do is under siege’: small fundraisers try to provide lifeline in Gaza

Every day, new images come from Gaza that depict the most unimaginable horrors: hunger, despair and murder. It’s rare to see a glimmer of hope in this unrelenting suffering, but last week a video posted by Stephanie Shih, of...

Seth Meyers on the Epstein conspiracy: ‘This is a crisis of Trump’s making’

Late-night hosts discussed the ongoing Jeffrey Epstein scandal and the “spite” behind Donald Trump’s impending tariffs.Seth MeyersOn Late Night, Seth Meyers spoke about the theories circulating over the death of Epstein, spurred on by the alleged missing minute from...

Kamala Harris says she doesn’t plan to return to ‘broken’ system of US politics

Kamala Harris has said that she currently has no desire to re-enter “the system” of American politics because it is “broken”.On Thursday night the defeated Democratic party’s presidential nominee, who replaced Joe Biden late in the 2024 campaign after...

Opposition leaders say ‘democracy in El Salvador has died’ after scrapping of presidential term limits

Activists and opposition leaders have that warned El Salvador is following Venezuela’s path towards dictatorship after the Central American country’s congress scrapped presidential term limits, paving the way for Nayib Bukele to seek indefinite re-election.“Democracy in El Salvador has...
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Sydney’s huge Gaza protest shows there’s now no stopping the tide of public opinion | Sarah Malik

The rain couldn’t stop us. At least 100,000 people took over the CBD and marched across Sydney’s Harbour Bridge...
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