Politics

Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponisation’ fund blocked by judge

In legal challenge, plaintiffs allege the money ‘rewards and incentivises unlawful behaviour’

Who are London’s parks for?

As festival season heats up, so has the debate about how these industrial-scale events threaten public access and the green spaces themselves

Inside the Democratic resistance on AI

Five influential progressives are shaping a confrontational Democratic message on AI.

Russia overspends on Putin’s war in Ukraine by $28bn

Finance ministry asked cabinet in February to freeze expenditure in other areas as cost of conflict mounts

‘Bonkers’: the audacious plan for a 1 million-person city near Cambridge

Shiv Malik, a former journalist, conceived his vision of timber skyscrapers after chronicling how young people were struggling

Markus Braun’s six-year detention violates his human rights

The former Wirecard CEO has been detained since 2020 without a verdict — a length almost without precedent

Nigel Farage loses viral touch to Musk-backed Rupert Lowe

Far-right offshoot Restore Britain gains traction on social media platform X ahead of key Makerfield by-election

The Kissinger Tapes by Tom Wells

Transcripts of Henry Kissinger’s secretly recorded phone calls emerge from the archive as a stark, quotidian chronicle of power during the Nixon administration

KPMG Australia’s CEO resigns after whistleblower claims

Big Four firm says its investigations into allegations of data misuse lacked rigour

Court rules against Marc Rowan in Hamptons lobster shack dispute

Billionaire co-founder of Apollo has been locked in a battle with East Hampton for years over changes to eatery

US and Iran exchange fire amid increasingly strained truce

Official says American forces shot down Iranian drones in move that prompted retaliation from Tehran

Farage is facing his own menace on the right

The rise of Restore Britain may force Reform’s leader to switch strategies