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White House freezes funds for Cornell and Northwestern in latest crackdown

09/04/2025 02:25 The Guardian

Pauses come after Trump officials sent warning letters to 60 US universities for ‘failure to protect Jewish students’In early March, the Trump administration sent warning letters to 60 US universities it said were facing “potential enforcement actions” for what it described as “failure to protect Jewish students on campus” in the wake of widespread pro-Palestinian protests on campuses last year.The president of Cornell University, which was on the list, responded with a defiant op-ed in the New York Times, arguing that universities, and their students, could weather debates and protests over the war in Gaza. Continue reading...

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Trump administration moves to narrow protections for endangered species

Environmentalists warn new proposal from US wildlife agencies could lead to habitat destruction and extinctionThe Trump administration is planning to narrow protections for endangered species, in a move that environmentalists say would accelerate extinction by opening up critical habitats for develo...

17/04/2025 20:56 The Guardian
Trump signals support for EU-US trade deal amid mixed messages on Ukraine in Meloni White House visit – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. For the latest on the Trump-Meloni meeting, read our full report:Meloni says Trump to visit Rome after Washington talks over tariffsAs we await further updates from the talks taking place at the Élysée, let me bring you some other stories from around Europe.Meanwhile,...

17/04/2025 19:35 The Guardian
Macron hosts ‘excellent’ ceasefire talks with top US, European and Ukrainian officials

Senior diplomats set to meet again in London next week after ‘very productive’ Paris summit to revive stalled effortsSenior US, European and Ukrainian diplomats will meet again in London next week, the Élysée Palace has said, after what a French official described as an “excellent” day of...

17/04/2025 18:54 The Guardian
NHS warned it must change guidance on single-sex spaces after court ruling

Equality watchdog says health service ‘now has clarity’ as managers draw up new policy for hospitals and surgeriesNHS bosses are scrambling to overhaul guidelines for single-sex spaces in thousands of hospitals and GP surgeries after the equality watchdog warned they would be pursued if they fai...

17/04/2025 18:15 The Guardian
Trans activists accuse UK equalities chief of ‘overreach’ for suggesting bans

EHRC’s Kishwer Falkner says trans women may be barred from some women’s spaces after supreme court rulingTrans rights campaigners have accused the head of the UK’s equalities regulator of “overreach” after she said trans women could be banned from women’s toilets, sports and hospital war...

17/04/2025 16:46 The Guardian
Russia removes Taliban from list of banned terrorist groups

Move paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with leadership of Afghanistan Russia has suspended its ban on the Taliban, which it had designated for more than two decades as a terrorist organisation, in a move that paves the way for Moscow to normalise ties with the leadership of Afghanistan.No c...

17/04/2025 15:04 The Guardian
‘Why be toxic?’: Russell T Davies hits back at claims Doctor Who too woke

Screenwriter says he has no time for ‘online warriors’ criticising show, which now has two minority ethnic leadsThe Doctor Who screenwriter Russell T Davies has said he has no time for “online warriors” who claim the show is too woke.Speaking to BBC Radio 2, the Welsh writer – who was also...

17/04/2025 13:39 The Guardian
Queen Elizabeth II’s solicitor managed offshore wealth for Assad’s uncle

Exclusive: Mark Bridges of Farrer & Co was trustee for Rifaat al-Assad, who was charged with war crimes in 2024Queen Elizabeth II’s private solicitor spent eight years helping to manage the offshore wealth of the uncle of the recently deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, an investigation h...

17/04/2025 13:31 The Guardian
Germany will not invite Russia and Belarus to second world war commemoration

Moscow and Minsk ambassadors excluded over concerns they could ‘exploit’ event for anti-Ukraine propagandaThe ambassadors of Russia and Belarus will not be invited to the German parliament’s commemorations of the 80th anniversary of the end of the second world war over concerns they could “e...

17/04/2025 13:15 The Guardian
ICJ hears Sudan case accusing UAE of ‘complicity in genocide’

United Arab Emirates says Sudan ‘misusing’ world court in proceedings relating to African nation’s civil warThe international court of justice will rule in the next few weeks on whether the United Arab Emirates can be plausibly found “complicit in the commission of genocide” by arming the...

17/04/2025 13:00 The Guardian
Revealed: world’s largest meat company may break Amazon deforestation pledges again

Brazilian ranchers in Pará and Rondônia say JBS can not achieve stated goal of deforestation-free cattleBibles, bullets and beef: Amazon cowboy culture at odds with Brazil’s climate goalsThe life and death of a ‘laundered’ cow in the Amazon rainforestThe world’s largest meat company, JBS,...

17/04/2025 11:00 The Guardian
Sainsbury’s expects supermarket price war and rising costs to hit profits

Group joins UK retailers’ £1bn profits club but warns of flat year ahead despite cost-cutting plansBusiness live – latest updatesSainsbury’s has warned that profits are not likely to rise this year as it braces for an expected price war among the UK’s supermarkets and faces rising costs fro...

17/04/2025 10:07 The Guardian
Donald Trump calls Harvard a ‘joke’ and says it should be stripped of funds – US politics live

President says university should lose government research contracts after it refused demands to accept outside political supervisionPronouncing himself “disgusted” by Donald Trump’s favorable attitude to Russia and Vladimir Putin, the former UK defence minister Grant Shapps said the US preside...

17/04/2025 08:57 The Guardian
Temu and Shein warn of US price hikes from next week due to Trump tariffs

Shein says ‘operating expenses have gone up’ as both Chinese retailers also drop ad spending in USTwo of China’s largest fast fashion retailers, Temu and Shein, have warned US customers that they will face price increases from next week, as Donald Trump’s hefty tariffs on Chinese imports com...

17/04/2025 08:12 The Guardian
Australia news live: Turnbull says negative gearing ‘examined by every government’; measles warning issued for greater Melbourne area

Follow today’s news liveAnywhere but Canberra: Australian voters on what matters to themInteractive guide to electorates in the Australian electionListen to the latest episode of our new narrative podcast series: GinaSee all our Australian election 2025 coverageGet our afternoon election email, fr...

17/04/2025 07:27 The Guardian
Putin’s play for an Indonesian airbase was always likely to fail – but Russia has wider ambitions

Russia remains a key arms supplier in South-east Asia, and Trump’s unstable leadership is providing more opportunities to make inroadsA defence industry report claiming that Russia requested a permanent base for its warplanes in Indonesia’s remote Papua region, right on Australia’s northern do...

17/04/2025 05:13 The Guardian
A third of UK school staff report ‘physical underdevelopment’ in poor students

A survey of more than 14,000 staff also found schools having to step in to provide basic household itemsA third of school staff have seen “physical underdevelopment” in students due to poverty, with schools in England stretching their budgets to buy basic household items such as cookers, bedding...

17/04/2025 05:00 The Guardian
Australia to woo US’s ‘smartest minds’ disfranchised by Trump research cuts

New talent program aims to attract academics fleeing US as administration slashes higher education funding Election 2025 live updates: Australia federal election campaignGet our afternoon election email, free app or daily news podcastThe “smartest minds” in the United States will be beckoned to...

17/04/2025 04:46 The Guardian
Ex-UK defence minister ‘disgusted’ by Trump’s attitude to Putin and Russia

Grant Shapps also compares calling Sumy strike a ‘mistake’ to statements by IRA terror group when it killed civiliansPronouncing himself “disgusted” by Donald Trump’s favorable attitude to Russia and Vladimir Putin, the former UK defence minister Grant Shapps said the US president calling...

17/04/2025 04:01 The Guardian
Trump press secretary attacks Maryland senator for traveling to El Salvador – as it happened

This blog has now closed. You can read our latest story hereUS attorney general Pam Bondi on Wednesday unveiled legal action against Maine, in an escalation of Donald Trump’s conflict with the state for refusing to ban transgender athletes from participating in women’s and girls’ sports.Reuter...

17/04/2025 01:37 The Guardian
Fed chair says Trump tariffs could make inflation worse as US stocks slide further

Value of Nvidia dropped by billions on Wednesday after president imposed new restrictions on the chip giantThe US Federal Reserve chair, Jerome Powell, warned Donald Trump’s tariffs were generating a “challenging scenario” for the central bank and were likely to worsen inflation.Powell’s com...

16/04/2025 20:26 The Guardian
Whole ecosystems ‘decimated’ by huge rise in UK wildfires

Blazes in some parts of the country are up by 1,200% since last year, as charities warn about effects on wildlifeEntire ecosystems have been “decimated” and endangered species put at risk after one of the worst wildfire seasons on record in the UK, charities have warned.Vast areas of habitat for...

16/04/2025 19:16 The Guardian
Israeli minister met David Lammy on ‘private’ visit to UK, Foreign Office says

Activist groups make request for arrest warrant to be issued for Gideon Sa’ar after unannounced trip to LondonThe UK Foreign Office has confirmed that the foreign secretary, David Lammy, met his Israeli counterpart, Gideon Sa’ar, while Sa’ar was on an unannounced visit to London.The Foreign Of...

16/04/2025 18:58 The Guardian
US judge finds probable cause to hold Trump officials in contempt over alien act deportations

Judge also warned he could name independent prosecutor if White House stonewalled contempt proceedingsA federal judge ruled on Wednesday that there was probable cause to hold Trump officials in criminal contempt for violating his temporary injunction that barred the use of the Alien Enemies Act wart...

16/04/2025 18:50 The Guardian
Man charged in fire at Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro’s mansion voiced Palestine support

Cody Balmer faces terror and arson charges after fire and 911 call voicing pro-Palestinian viewsThe man charged with setting fire to the Pennsylvania governor’s mansion called emergency responders after the attack and made comments signaling support for Palestinians, the New York Times reports.Acc...

16/04/2025 18:47 The Guardian
UK officials label trade documents ‘secret’ to shield from US eyes amid Trump tariff war

Exclusive: civil servants beef up security rules for sensitive negotiating papers over fears posed by hostile US trade policyUK officials are tightening security when handling sensitive trade documents to prevent them from falling into US hands amid Donald Trump’s tariff war, the Guardian can reve...

16/04/2025 18:00 The Guardian
Ringleaders of attacks on French jails will be punished, Macron says

Wave of assaults ‘declaration of war’ by drug gangs after crackdown on bosses operating from jail, French media sayEmmanuel Macron has warned that those behind a wave of apparently coordinated attacks on French prisons and staff will be “found, tried and punished”.The president’s comments...

16/04/2025 17:31 The Guardian
California launches legal challenge against Trump’s ‘illegal’ tariffs

Governor says import tariffs are ‘wreaking chaos’ on the state’s families, businesses and economyCalifornia is preparing to ask a court to block Donald Trump’s “illegal” tariffs, accusing the president of overstepping his authority and causing “immediate and irreparable harm” to the...

16/04/2025 16:16 The Guardian
Trump tariffs will send global trade into reverse this year, warns WTO

World Trade Organization says trade between US and China is expected to plunge by 81% in ‘decoupling’Donald Trump’s tariffs will send international trade into reverse this year, depressing global economic growth, the World Trade Organization has warned.In its latest snapshot of the global trad...

16/04/2025 15:57 The Guardian
Council plans legal action over ancient London oak felled by Toby Carvery

Enfield council disputes restaurant chain’s claim 500-year-old tree in Whitewebbs Park was ‘mostly dead’ Toby Carvery has been threatened with legal action by a council over the felling of an ancient oak in a park in north London.The restaurant chain is facing national outrage after its decisi...

16/04/2025 15:36 The Guardian
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