America

The Tesla owner was livestreaming himself playing Path of Exile 2 when a torrent of abuse flooded the game's chat feature

Keir Starmer’s chumminess towards Trump has protected the UK from the worst of his tariff madness. But it also risks a rift with the EU

No complex calculations have gone into these import taxes - just reckless back-of-an-envelope stuff

The US president has relentlessly attacked the institutions of American life. But there is one thing that he cannot defeat, because if it falls, it will take him – and the US – down with it

The only answer for Britain is to build closer ties with our single biggest trading partner – and that is not the US

The GDP hit from being out of the EU is far worse than the one we’re facing from the White House

The last time the US imposed blanket tariffs it led to global economic and political disaster. This time could be just as bad. How can the rest of the world defend itself?

The US giants have become sprawling conglomerates, precisely the kind of fat, complacent companies they once set out to disrupt

Researchers have developed a promising vaccine for pancreatic cancer, but its future is uncertain due to Robert F Kennedy Jr

JD Vance and Pete Hegseth are both desperate to succeed Trump in the White House. But a star podcaster could beat them to it

No matter how loudly we call for a return to the customs union and the single market, Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are not going to listen

The White House correspondents’ dinner will lose its traditional comedian amid fears of upsetting the notoriously thin-skinned president

What happens if Donald goes the same way as his father – and what if he already has?

As Trump attacks America’s top academic institutions, more and more researchers are deciding to leave – and most of them have one destination in mind

Trump doesn’t understand anything about economics – might his aggressive stance on Europe have some unintended consequences?

Relocated to Florida and posting claims Penelope Keith killed JFK, will the former comic come home for his own wellness festival?

He was one half of Milli Vanilli. So was he a failure, a fraud – or an extraordinary success?

In an extract from their new book Abundance, two leading US thinkers set out the fundamental problem with mainstream beliefs – on both the left and right

The shocking treatment of US deportees to El Salvador is just one attraction in Trump’s theme park of brutality. But why do so many Americans seem keen to buy a ticket?

The politicisation of SpaceX’s routine mission raises concerns over Nasa’s reliance on the increasingly erratic Elon Musk

The EU bans around 1,000 chemicals from its food products due to health risk. In the US the number is just seven

Trump and all his Maga disciples see Europe as little more than a parasite – how did it all go so wrong?

Elon Musk’s creation is EU-unfriendly and poses a danger to anyone who gets in its way. Sound familiar?

An April 2 tariff bombshell could make much of what Rachel Reeves says irrelevant

The X owner is shutting down the accounts of opposition activists in Turkey and suing politicians in the US

However irritating the US president might be for Europe’s political leaders, Donald Trump might actually be doing them a favour

The president comes out with a ludicrous stream of nonsense. But some of what he says has its origins in some unexpected places

American liberals who think Trump has already failed, and that a Democratic renaissance is on its way, understand nothing

Meet the Americans swapping Trump’s Florida for the gentle rural landscapes of County Kerry

Canadians are aghast at what has happened to their neighbours, but this presents a perfect opportunity for Britain to strengthen old ties

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