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• Intelligence agency classifies country's popular Alternative for Germany party as 'extremist'

  02-05-2025 23:57 via foxnews.com
  
  Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution or BfV, on Friday classified the country’s popular Alternative for Germany (AfD) party as "extremist.""Central to our assessment is the ethnically and ancestrally defined concept of the people that shapes the AfD, which devalues entire segments of the population in Germany and violates their human dignity," the BfV said, explaining its decision. "This concept is reflected in the party&rs
  
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• US readies Russia sanctions over Ukraine, unclear if Trump will sign, sources say

  02-05-2025 23:50 via foxnews.com
  
  U.S. officials have finalized new economic sanctions against Russia, including banking and energy measures, to intensify pressure on Moscow to embrace U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to end its war on Ukraine, according to three U.S. officials and a source familiar with the issue.The targets include state-owned Russian energy giant Gazprom and major entities involved in the natural resources and banking sectors, said an administration official, who like the other sources requested an
  
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• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to grant DOGE access to Social Security data

  02-05-2025 23:39 via nbcnews.com
  
  The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to pause a lower court's order restricting affiliates of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing sensitive Social Security Administration data, arguing in a Friday filing that the judicial order limits President Donald Trump’s executive authority.
  
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• Fox News True Crime Newsletter: Luigi Mangione's jailhouse calls, Karen Read's claims, serial killer fears

  02-05-2025 23:38 via foxnews.com
  
  ‘HOW IS THIS JUSTICE?’: Parents outraged by homey prison life for driver who killed their son‘CONNECT THE DOTS’: New England investigators 'not ruling out anything' amid serial killer fears: Former homicide detectiveFIELDS OF DEATH: Fox Hollow Farm serial killer's 10th victim identified: coronerGETTING AN EARFUL: New York DA's office eavesdropped on Luigi Mangione's call with defense attorney, prosecutors admitFOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME TEAM ON XDEVIL IN THE DETAILS: Jenni
  
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• Connecticut Senate Democrats list outrageous things they'd rather endure instead of 100 more days of Trump

  02-05-2025 23:33 via foxnews.com
  
  Connecticut Senate Democrats posted an outlandish TikTok video on Thursday, featuring lawmakers listing out unpleasant things they would rather subject themselves to, rather than face another 100 days of the Trump administration.The video, which had garnered just over 100 likes on the platform as of Friday afternoon, appears to have been partially filmed in the State Senate chamber.TRUMP TOUTS ‘MOST SUCCESSFUL’ FIRST 100 DAYS IN PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY DURING MICHIGAN RALLYLawmakers sug
  
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• Chinese official reportedly seeking talks with Trump on fentanyl ingredients amid trade war

  02-05-2025 23:32 via foxnews.com
  
  A top Chinese government official is asking what the Trump administration wants the communist nation to do about chemicals used to make fentanyl amid an ongoing trade war between the world's two largest economies. Wang Xiaohong, China’s minister of public security, has been making inquiries about what Trump wants China to do about the fentanyl issue over the last few days, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.Chinese companies produce precursors, large quantities of chemicals that
  
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• Measles scare at major airport: What to know about potential exposure

  02-05-2025 23:17 via foxnews.com
  
  The Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) is sounding the alarm on a potential measles exposure at Chicago O’Hare International Airport.In a news release on April 30, the department identified two confirmed measles cases in Cook County.These are the first two cases in the county, following the state’s first confirmed case in a southern Illinois adult on April 23.MEASLES OUTBREAKS EMERGE ACROSS US: SEE WHICH STATES HAVE REPORTED CASESOne case was identified as a suburban Cook Co
  
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• Maine drops lawsuit vs. Trump admin amid trans athlete feud after federal funding is unfrozen

  02-05-2025 23:16 via foxnews.com
  
  The state of Maine and President Donald Trump came to one small agreement in their large-scale feud over the issue of trans athletes in girls' sports. In exchange for the U.S. Department of Agriculture agreeing to restore federal funds to Maine that it had frozen, the state dropped its lawsuit against the Trump administration over that issue. The lawsuit was filed April 7 after a federal funding freeze in response to the state's refusal to keep trans athletes out of girls sports. 
  
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• 'Bold and fearless': Trump launches new wave of judicial nominations

  02-05-2025 23:07 via foxnews.com
  
  President Trump announced his first judicial nominee of his second term, kicking off what will be a historic next four years as he continues to build on the most consequential accomplishment of his first term by appointing even more bold and fearless judges. The stakes could not be higher as Democrat activist judges are actively sabotaging American voters, the presidency, our Constitution, and our country.   Trump nominated Whitney Hermandorfer to a Tennessee-based seat on th
  
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• Tim Walz's daughter blasts running influencer for 'normalizing' Trump administration with White House visit

  02-05-2025 23:00 via foxnews.com
  
  Hope Walz, the daughter of former vice presidential nominee Gov. Tim Walz, attacked a popular running influencer on social media for interviewing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt this week.Kate Mackz, a running TikToker with 783,000 followers, interviews celebrities, often while taking a jog, for her online series "Post Run High." She's interviewed well-known Democrats before, including Tim Walz in a video posted two weeks before the November election.But Mackz's interview with Leavi
  
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• Top 5 most outrageous ways the government has wasted your taxes, as uncovered by Elon Musk's DOGE

  02-05-2025 22:49 via foxnews.com
  
  As President Donald Trump celebrated his 100th day in office this week, Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has cut at least $160 billion in waste, fraud and abuse in the federal government. When Trump signed an executive order establishing the agency on his Inauguration Day, DOGE set an ambitious goal of cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget. According to the Office of Government Ethics, "special government employees" like Musk can work for the federal
  
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• Seven things we have learnt from the results

  02-05-2025 22:45 via bbc.com
  The patchwork of different contests across England has been truly fascinating, throwing up all sorts of lessons.
  
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• GoFundMe reels in donations for hospitalized Pirates fan who fell from stands

  02-05-2025 22:42 via foxnews.com
  
  A GoFundMe has begun in efforts to help pay for medical expenses for the 20-year-old man who fell from the stands of a Pittsburgh Pirates game this week.Kavan Markwood, a former college football player, was identified as the man who fell more than 20 feet onto the right-field warning track.Markwood flipped over the wall’s railing and fell onto the field in a game between the Pirates and Chicago Cubs. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COMPlay stopped immediately as medical
  
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• ICE makes major arrest after Soros-backed prosecutor made controversial plea deal

  02-05-2025 22:36 via foxnews.com
  
  Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Virginia State Police arrested an illegal immigrant after he was released as a result of a plea deal made by the Fairfax County Commonwealth Attorney’s Office.Guatemalan national Wilmer Osmany Ramos-Giron, 34, faced numerous felony charges in January, including abduction by force, assault on a family member and felony strangulation causing injury to a Virginia woman, according to ICE, which has Ramos-Giron in custody.Ramos-Giron spent only two months
  
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• Gun training courses experience surge in sign ups: 'People don't want to be the victim anymore'

  02-05-2025 22:20 via foxnews.com
  
  Crime, defunding police, fear of uncertainty and unrest after natural disasters or another pandemic are fueling gun ownership and interest in gun schools."There's a lot of things, a lot of chaos that happens, especially like big cities, and, you know, people don't want to be the victim anymore," says Eric Stieber, attending a week-long handgun class at Gunsite Academy, a massive gun training school near Prescott, Arizona.  DEMOCRAT GUN CONTROL PUSH PERSISTS WITH REINTRODUCTION OF ASSAU
  
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• DAVID MARCUS: How I stumbled on the secret to overcoming political division in today's fractious USA

  02-05-2025 22:17 via foxnews.com
  
  Over the past eight months, as I have been traversing the country, there is one inescapable but silent issue that I hear over and over again. Put bluntly, we don’t like each other very much.In every state I’ve traveled to, I hear stories of family members and friends lost to the swarming waves of political anger, and I’m not here to say one side is to blame, though I have suspicions. I am here to say that I think I might have recently met the solution.In Morgantown, West V
  
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• John Fetterman faces new spotlight on health, family drama, sparking online uproar

  02-05-2025 22:13 via foxnews.com
  
  A new exposé about Sen. John Fetterman's, D-Pa., time on Capitol Hill set social media ablaze on Friday. The report raised questions about alleged tensions with his wife, Gisele, over his health regimen, his stance on Israel and her reported run-ins with his staff.In "All By Himself: John Fetterman insists he is in good health, but staffers past and present say they no longer recognize the man they once knew," New York Magazine’s Intelligencer lays out recollections from curren
  
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• Two planes do 'go-arounds' to avoid military helicopter near Reagan Washington National Airport

  02-05-2025 22:12 via foxnews.com
  
  Two planes had to perform "go-arounds" to avoid crashing into a military helicopter on Thursday at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA), where a commercial plane and a Black Hawk Army helicopter collided in January, killing 67 people.At about 2:30 p.m., air traffic control instructed a Delta Air Lines Airbus A319 and a Republic Airways Embraer E170 to perform "go-arounds" at DCA due to a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter inbound to the Pentagon Army Heliport, according to statements fro
  
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• John Elway golf cart incident: Former Broncos legend hires lawyer with history of repping athletes in trouble

  02-05-2025 22:06 via foxnews.com
  
  Broncos legend John Elway retained a Denver, Colorado-based lawyer following a deadly golf cart incident in California.Elway's agent and longtime friend Jeffrey Sperbeck, 62, fell off the back of a golf cart on Saturday night at the Madison Club in La Quinta, according to officials. The Riverside County Sheriff's Office said in a press it "received information" about the incident two days later, on Monday, adding it has launched an investigation.A Cal Fire spokesperson said it responded to the i
  
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• South Carolina beach town maniac chased children as he mowed down three victims at playground: docs

  02-05-2025 22:01 via foxnews.com
  
  A South Carolina man intentionally ran over three people on Sullivan's Island on Thursday afternoon, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by Fox News Digital.Justin Collin Adams has been charged with three counts of attempted murder and one count of first-degree aggravated assault for allegedly running over a parent and two children in the Sunrise Presbyterian Church parking lot just before 1 p.m. on Thursday, court records show. The arrest affidavit for Adams says that the 36-year-old
  
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• College football coaches punished for $100K betting scandal, wagering on own school

  02-05-2025 21:50 via foxnews.com
  
  Five current or former Iowa State football coaching staff members have been punished by the NCAA for sports gambling that included bets on the school's men's and women's basketball programs. They face no criminal charges.In total, the five coaches combined to make more than 6,200 online bets totaling more than $100,000 on games. Some of those bets came on professional events, some were on college sports. The violations have been classified as Level II, meaning they could compromise the inte
  
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• Co-op apologises after hackers extract ‘significant’ amount of customer data

  02-05-2025 21:50 via theguardian.com
  
  The National Cyber Security Centre and the National Crime Agency are assisting with an inquiry, the group saidThe Co-op has apologised after hackers accessed and extracted data relating to a “significant number” of its customers from one of its systems.The group, which owns more than 2,000 grocery stores and more than 800 funeral parlours and offers legal and financial services, said hackers had been able to access personal data including names and contact details relating to an undi
  
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• Nick Saban says former Alabama player 'pushed the red button' in Oval Office during Trump White House visit

  02-05-2025 21:44 via foxnews.com
  
  Former college football coach Nick Saban introduced President Donald Trump before graduating students at the University of Alabama on Thursday night, but before the president could give his commencement speech, Saban shared a funny story about the Crimson Tide’s visit to the White House during Trump’s first presidency.  Alabama had defeated the Georgia Bulldogs in overtime after trailing 13-0 at halftime to win the College Football National Championship in 2018. A
  
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• Idaho: seven people killed in highway crash near Yellowstone, police say

  02-05-2025 21:41 via theguardian.com
  
  Authorities say pickup truck and tour van collided about 16 miles from park entrance and both vehicles caught fireA pickup truck and a tour van collided on a highway leading to Yellowstone national park, leaving seven people dead and eight others injured, Idaho state police said.The crash happened just before 7.15pm on Thursday near Henry’s Lake state park in eastern Idaho, police said in a press release. The state park is roughly 16 miles (26km) west of Yellowstone. Continue reading...
  
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• Giants great Phil Simms says he would let top pick Abdul Carter wear his retired jersey number

  02-05-2025 21:34 via foxnews.com
  
  New York Giants No. 3 overall pick Adbul Carter wanted to wear Lawrence Taylor's retired No. 56 jersey, but Taylor said no. Luckily for Carter, another Giants' great may be more willing to un-retire his jersey number.Phil Simms, 69, said that giving up his retired No. 11 for Carter or rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart would not bother him. "Hey, look, I told some of my friends and people around me, I said, ‘Oh, I'll let him have it in a second.’ I said, ‘Can you just help it
  
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• Illinois landlord sentenced to 53 years over hate-crime killing of six-year-old

  02-05-2025 21:28 via theguardian.com
  
  Joseph Czuba, 73, killed Muslim boy and severely injured his mother in vicious attack days after war in Gaza beganAn Illinois landlord who killed a six-year-old Muslim boy and severely injured his mother in a vicious hate-crime attack days after the war in Gaza began was sentenced on Friday to 53 years in prison.Joseph Czuba, 73, was found guilty in February of murder, attempted murder and hate-crime charges in the death of Wadee Alfayoumi and the wounding of his mother, Hanan Shaheen. Continue
  
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• Prince Harry loses legal challenge over police protection in UK

  02-05-2025 21:26 via theguardian.com
  
  Duke of Sussex’s team had argued he was ‘singled out’ for ‘inferior treatment’ when security was downgraded in 2020 The Duke of Sussex has lost a legal challenge over the level of taxpayer-funded security he is entitled to while in the UK, allowing the government to proceed with a “bespoke”, and cheaper, level of protection for his family.Three senior judges at the court of appeal rejected Prince Harry’s claim that he had been “singled out&rd
  
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• English local elections: Farage says ‘it’s the beginning of the end of the Conservative party’ after sweeping Reform wins – as it happened

  02-05-2025 21:02 via theguardian.com
  
  This liveblog is now closed. See all of our local elections coverage hereLocal elections: full mayoral and council resultsStarmer under fire from Labour MPs after Runcorn loss‘They really are all horrible’: political anger marks Reform UK’s Runcorn winReform UK has won three of the first five wards declared at Northumberland County Council, with Labour and the Conservatives picking up one each, PA reports.There are 67 seats on the council, with the Conservatives defending 33, L
  
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• US designates two powerful Haitian gangs as terrorist groups

  02-05-2025 20:57 via theguardian.com
  
  Rubio calls Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif ‘threat to US national security’ and says support for groups could lead to chargesThe United States has designated a powerful Haitian gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital city as a “transnational terrorist group”.The criminal coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Live Together), and another faction, the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility for a shocking massacre of at least 115 people in t
  
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• Trump's 2026 budget proposal calls for $163B in cuts to federal spending

  02-05-2025 20:25
  The White House on Friday released President Donald Trump's proposed budget for the 2026 fiscal year, which calls for $163 billion in cuts to federal spending.
  
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• AfD ‘extremist’ label sets up political high-wire act for Friedrich Merz

  02-05-2025 20:22 via theguardian.com
  
  Incoming chancellor must now decide whether to ban flourishing far-right party amid widespread discontentGerman spy agency labels AfD as ‘confirmed rightwing extremist’ forceThe decision by Germany’s domestic spy agency to call the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party “extremist” amounts to the starkest move yet by authorities to try to stop the advance of the populist political force.Friday’s classification by the Federal Office for the Protection
  
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• Syria calls Israeli air strikes on Damascus a ‘dangerous escalation’

  02-05-2025 19:59 via theguardian.com
  Benjamin Netanyahu says strikes intended to deter Syria’s new leadership from any hostile move against the DruzeSyria’s new rulers have angrily denounced raids launched by Israel’s air force against unidentified targets near the presidential palace in Damascus, warning of a “dangerous escalation”.Israeli officials said the attacks were intended to send a message to the Syrian government after days of bloody clashes near Damascus between pro-government militia forces
  
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• Farage claims Reform UK local election gains ‘beginning of the end’ for Tories

  02-05-2025 19:58 via theguardian.com
  
  Hard-right party wins byelection with 17-point swing from Labour and adds more than 500 council seats Local elections: full mayoral and council resultsNigel Farage claimed he had broken the grip of Britain’s two main political parties as Reform UK gained an MP and swept to a string of victories in England’s local elections, making deep inroads into Labour and Conservative heartlands.On a sobering day for Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch that brought immediate recriminations, Reform too
  
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• Venezuela rejects UN ruling to refrain from holding election in disputed region

  02-05-2025 19:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Neighboring Guyana has also laid claim to the mineral rich Essequibo, and Venezuela plans to elect officials to govern itVenezuela’s government has said it “categorically” rejected a ruling from the U N’s top court ordering the South American country to refrain from holding elections for officials who supposedly would oversee a resource-rich region in neighboring Guyana that both countries claim as their own.The government of Nicolás Maduro, the Venezuelan presiden
  
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• King Charles to open Canada parliament as PM Carney reacts to Trump threats

  02-05-2025 18:31 via theguardian.com
  
  Liberal PM will also meet with US president on Tuesday amid tensions over threatened annexation and tariffsKing Charles has accepted an invitation to open Canada’s parliament on 27 May, in “an historic honour that matches the weight of our times”, the country’s prime minister, Mark Carney, said on Friday.In his first news conference since an election dominated by Donald Trump’s threats to Canada’s sovereignty, the prime minister also confirmed he would meet th
  
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• Trump unveils budget slashing health, education and clean energy programs while growing military

  02-05-2025 17:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump released a budget proposal Friday calling for a mix of cuts to domestic programs involving public health, education and clean energy, while seeking to increase spending on the military when factoring in a one-time boost.
  
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• The polls point to a Labor win, but its primary vote is barely moving – can both things be true?

  02-05-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Labor’s confidence going into Saturday’s election is tempered by gnawing anxiety about the underlying polling dataAustralia federal election 2025 LIVE – latest news, updates and resultsSee our full coverage of the Australian electionPolls tracker; Election day guide; Party policies explainedMicro parties explained; Interactive seat explorer Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s major parties are headed for a historically low primary vote,
  
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• Coalition braces for tough result as Albanese hopes to be first PM to win re-election since Howard

  02-05-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Labor’s goal of retaining majority government remains on knife-edge as opposition leader confident he can pull off a surprise winAustralia federal election 2025 LIVE – latest news, updates and resultsSee our full coverage of the Australian electionPolls tracker; Election day guide; Party policies explainedMicro parties explained; Interactive seat explorer Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese is on the cusp of winning a second term but hopes of r
  
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• Anywhere but Canberra: meet some of the voters who will decide Australia’s 2025 federal election

  02-05-2025 17:00 via theguardian.com
  Guardian Australia spoke to a range of people all across the country to ask about their lives and perspectives ahead of Saturday’s ballotAustralia federal election 2025 LIVE – latest news, updates and resultsSee our full coverage of the Australian electionPolls tracker; Election day guide; Party policies explainedMicro parties explained; Interactive seat explorerGet our breaking news email,free app ordaily news podcastOver the past three months, Guardian Australia has been speaking t
  
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• Woman in Florida deported to Cuba says she was forced to leave baby daughter

  02-05-2025 16:50 via theguardian.com
  
  Heidy Sánchez says she was told her 17-month-old, who has health problems and is breastfeeding, couldn’t go with herA mother deported to Cuba reportedly had to hand over her 17-month-old daughter to a lawyer while her husband, a US citizen, stood outside unable to say goodbye.Heidy Sánchez was told she was being detained for deportation to Cuba when she turned up at her scheduled Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) check-in appointment in Tampa, Florida, last week. Cont
  
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• WATCH: 500 dachshunds try to set world record

  02-05-2025 16:39
  
  The dashing dachshunds descended upon Budapest in an attempt to fetch the record for the largest single-breed dog walk.
  
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• Starbase, Texas? On a Mexico border, a Musk-proposed city comes up for a vote

  02-05-2025 16:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Voters in a part of South Texas that is home to Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX will decide Saturday whether to incorporate into a city named Starbase.
  
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• Gaza humanitarian aid ship ‘bombed by drones’ in waters off Malta

  02-05-2025 16:15 via theguardian.com
  Freedom Flotilla Coalition claims Israel to blame for attack on unarmed civilian vessel in international watersA ship carrying humanitarian aid and activists to Gaza has been bombed by drones and disabled while in international waters off Malta as it headed towards the Palestinian territory, its organisers have said.“At 00:23 Maltese time, the Conscience, a Freedom Flotilla Coalition ship came under direct attack in international waters,” the group said in a statement. Continue readi
  
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• Germany’s far-right AfD to challenge ‘extremist’ designation – as it happened

  02-05-2025 16:02 via theguardian.com
  Co-leaders say party is ‘being publicly discredited and criminalised’ by intelligence agency’s move to change classification. This live blog is closedGerman spy agency labels AfD as ‘confirmed rightwing extremist’ forceElsewhere, TikTok has been fined €530m for violations of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation after the Irish Data Protection Commission’s inquiry into its data transfers to China.DPC deputy commissioner Graham Doyle said in a
  
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• Why is Trump ending the ‘de minimis’ tariff loophole on low-value imports?

  02-05-2025 15:41 via theguardian.com
  Goods worth less than $800 will be subject to 120% levy meaning prices on Chinese exports will probably increaseAt one minute past midnight on Friday, eastern time, a US tariff exemption that has fuelled the rise of companies such as Shein and Temu, and stocked the wardrobes of millions of Americans with cheap fast fashion and other household goods, closed. As part of Donald Trump’s flurry of tariffs on China, the US is closing a loophole that allowed low-value goods to be shipped into the
  
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• UK sand eel fishing ban remains in place despite EU legal challenge

  02-05-2025 14:57 via theguardian.com
  Creatures make up the bulk of seabirds’ diet but are fished for commercial pig foodEurope live – latest updatesA ban on fishing for sand eels in UK waters will remain in place despite a legal challenge from the EU.The small, silvery eels make up the bulk of the diet of seabirds, but they are fished for commercial pig food. A lack of sand eels means seabirds such as puffins can starve to death. Continue reading...
  
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• Ugandan ​​activist​ asks HSBC to put ‘lives before profit’ as campaigners target bank’s AGM

  02-05-2025 14:12 via theguardian.com
  Patience Nabukalu, who has experienced climate-related flooding, joins protestors from around the world to deliver a letter to CEO Georges Elhederycriticising the financing of oil, gas and coal projectsAt nine years old, Patience Nabukalu was devastated when her friend, Kevin, died in severe flooding that hit their Kampala suburb, Nateete, a former wetland. Witnessing deaths and the destruction of homes and livelihoods in floods made worse by extreme rainfall has had a profound impact on her.She
  
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• China ‘evaluating’ US offer to engage in trade negotiations

  02-05-2025 12:55 via theguardian.com
  Comments come a week after Trump claimed talks were already taking placeBeijing is “evaluating” an offer from the US to engage in trade negotiations, the Chinese government has said, a week after Donald Trump claimed talks were already under way.China’s commerce ministry said on Friday: “The US has recently taken the initiative on many occasions to convey information to China through relevant parties, saying it hopes to talk with China.” Continue reading...
  
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• German spy agency labels AfD as ‘confirmed rightwing extremist’ force

  02-05-2025 12:53 via theguardian.com
  Upgrade from ‘suspected’ threat will mean greater surveillance of party that came second in last electionAfD ‘extremist’ label sets up political high-wire act for MerzGermany’s domestic intelligence service has designated the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the biggest opposition party, as a “confirmed rightwing extremist” force, meaning authorities can step up their surveillance as critics call for it to be legally banned.The Federal O
  
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• Concern after HHS report calls for therapy for trans kids over gender-affirming care

  02-05-2025 12:27
  Experts are pushing back after the HHS released a report, calling for the use of psychotherapy among children and teens with gender dysphoria over gender-affirming care.
  
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