
The Guardian - 12 hours 19 min ago
With voters embracing leaders who brazenly monetise public office, experts say an ethical code is breaking down Donald Trump came to office in 2017 after decades of bankruptcies and business failures. Yes, he was rich, but his latest financial disclosure, published this week, suggests he will depart billions richer. In the first year of his second term, he made more than $2bn from Trump hotels, Trump golf courses, Trump cryptocurrency, Trump watches, Trump cologne, Trump Bibles and more. Continue...

The Guardian - 14 hours 8 min ago
In duelling speeches this weekend, the New York mayor faced a nation of contradictions' while the president offered a stump speech If Donald Trump's address on 3 July from Mount Rushmore will be remembered at all, it will be because that was the day of competing speeches, and competing visions, of the United States. Earlier on 3 July, the New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani, delivered a speech that was about half as long as Trump's 28-minute address, but one that offered a far different...

NBC News - 15 hours 18 min ago
An underground church pastor has been released from prison in China and has arrived in the United States, less than two months after President Donald Trump publicly raised his case with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Sky News - 17 hours 35 min ago
A Chinese pastor has been released from jail after Donald Trump intervened to get him freed, in what his family have described as a "miracle".

The Guardian - 18 hours 4 min ago
Would we get a 21st-century Gettysburg address? Or YMCA, gripes about his legal woes and boasting about Iran? The astronomer Carl Sagan once described the earth as a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. "Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot," he wrote. Donald Trump took the stage on Saturday night imagining himself the master of the universe, not the temporary...

NPR - 18 hours 14 min ago
A pastor of a prominent underground church who was detained in China in October has been released, less than two months after U.S. President Donald Trump brought up his case when meeting Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

BBC - 18 hours 19 min ago
US President Donald Trump's speech included some of his political agenda but also honoured war veterans and American history.

The Independent - 18 hours 43 min ago
Jet2 will unveil its full-year financial results on Wednesday after a period of disruption for the travel industry.

BBC - 20 hours 45 min ago
The Zion Church founder's release comes after a direct plea to Xi Jinping from Donald Trump.

The Guardian - 21 hours 43 min ago
In a political wasteland dominated by billionaires, war criminals and mega-corporations, the head of the Catholic church is a rare figure of moral leadership What do Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Benjamin Netanyahu have in common? Answer: a chronic inability to tell right from wrong. The three leaders currently causing the most harm in the world share a predilection for violence, a chilling lack of compassion, and extraordinary self-regard mixed with paranoia. Yet the characteristic linking them...

BBC - 22 hours 6 min ago
US President Donald Trump's speech included some of his political agenda but also honoured war veterans and American history.

Huffington Post - 22 hours 16 min ago
In mid-June, Trump announced the event on the National Mall would be the "most spectacular TRUMP RALLY of them all."...