Food inflation in the UK edged higher in March as Britons splashed out early on Easter eggs and seasonal confectionery, pushing up prices of chocolate and sweets across supermarket shelves. According to the latest data from Kantar, grocery inflation rose to 3.5% in the four weeks to 23 March, up from 3.3% the previous month. Overall supermarket sales grew by 3.2%, slightly lagging behind price increases. Despite Easter falling later this year, shoppers have already...
The UK government has set out the scope of its upcoming Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, a major piece of legislation aimed at strengthening the country’s digital defences and safeguarding critical national infrastructure against growing cyber threats. Due to be introduced later in 2025, the Bill will introduce mandatory cybersecurity requirements for around 1,000 service providers and extend new protections to over 200 data centres, recognising their importance to the UK’s innovation ecosystem, particularly in...
Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., spoke out against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk on the Senate floor throughout the night after beginning his marathon speech at 7 p.m. Monday. The senator was still speaking on the floor at 6 a.m. Tuesday, 11 hours after he had begun. Booker received some support from other Senate Democrats, whom he allowed to speak at times, during his hourslong show of opposition against the Trump administration. Booker said toward...
House Republicans are going all out this week to signal their support for the Trump administration amid multiple legal standoffs over White House policy. A bill to limit U.S. district court judges’ ability to issue nationwide injunctions sailed through the House Rules Committee – the last gatekeeper for bills before a chamber-wide vote – in a party-line vote Monday evening, as expected. On Tuesday morning, meanwhile, two high-profile panels on the House Judiciary Committee will...
President Trump stirs up controversy, by design, on just about everything. And when the media, including me, cover this flood-the-zone approach, Trumpian allies rip the resulting stories and segments as reflecting an unhealthy negative obsession with the president. Memo to the pro-Trump zealots who go online and declare I hate the president, that’s objectively ridiculous. He was pleased with the two interviews I did with him during the campaign, and I was just over at...
Britain is bracing for a major economic hit after President Donald Trump refused to exempt the UK from a wave of new global trade tariffs, with Downing Street now expecting duties of up to 20 per cent to take effect on Wednesday — what Trump has branded “Liberation Day”. Despite weeks of behind-the-scenes negotiations, the US has refused to sign a proposed UK economic deal that ministers hoped would secure a carve-out from the sweeping...
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President Donald Trump said that the U.S. would continue to search for Austin Tice, an American journalist who disappeared in Syria in 2012. Tice, who previously served as a captain in the Marine Corps and was a student at Georgetown University Law Center, started working as an independent journalist for McClatchy, The Washington Post and other outlets in Syria in May 2012 before jihadist militants seized him near Damascus. Trump said that although there has...
: Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., will vote to confirm President Donald Trump’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) nominee, Dr. Mehmet Oz, after securing commitments from him regarding transgender treatments for minors and abortion. ‘On this basis, I will vote to confirm him. Now that I am confident that he has moved away from his previous positions, and he’s moved into alignment with the president, I feel comfortable voting for him,’ he told Fox...
President Donald Trump said he would ‘love’ to run against former President Barack Obama in a hypothetical third-term run for the presidency that he has floated in recent days. ‘I know it’s hypothetical right now, but if you were allowed for some reason to run for a third term, is there a thought that the Democrats could try to run Barack Obama against you?’ Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked Trump on Monday evening from the...
