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In a major u-turn, the left-wing Labour Party government in Britain has reversed course and will prohibit the state-owned green energy project from using solar panels tied to Chinese slave labour. After blocking attempts last month to amend legislation to cut subsidies to the upcoming GB Energy firm if evidence of slave labour was found in their solar panels and other so-called “renewables”, the Labour government has backtracked following pressure from campaigners and backbench MPs. A government source told the Times of London that there was a “recognition of the strength of feeling” after 92 Labour MPs refused to vote in…

The Collapse of Democrat Confidence in the Economy Consumer sentiment improved slightly in late April compared with the preliminary reading earlier in the month. But in a far more important development, sentiment remains deeply depressed—and the division between Democrats and Republicans has reached historic, almost unimaginable levels. According to the University of Michigan’s latest survey, the final reading of the Consumer Sentiment Index stood at 52.2 in April, up modestly from the mid-month figure but still the lowest since July 2022. Beneath the headline, the political breakdown tells the real story: sentiment among Democrats collapsed to 34.4, the lowest level…

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what’s in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysThe 16-year-old accused of stabbing his classmates at a secondary school in western France, killing one student, has been described by those who knew him as a loner who admired Adolf Hitler, a public prosecutor said on Friday.The knife attack took place on Thursday at a private Catholic school in the city of Nantes. A 16-year-old girl was killed by the suspect, and two other students, aged 15 and 16,…

President Donald Trump said in a new interview that he was joking when he promised to end the Russia-Ukraine war in the first 24 hours of his second term.Trump also said Chinese President Xi Jinping has called him about tariffs, and he addressed the Supreme Court’s order that his administration work to facilitate the release of Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia from an El Salvador prison.Those were just some of the areas the president touched upon in a wide-ranging interview with Time magazine to mark his first 100 days in office, which has been consumed by efforts to reshape the…

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky directly contradicts the US president’s position on Crimea President Donald Trump has claimed that “most of the major points” in an agreement to end the Ukraine conflict have been resolved, even as Vladimir Zelensky once again publicly rejected a reported key clause in the proposed US peace framework.Russian President Vladimir Putin held lengthy talks with US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Friday, described by Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov as “constructive and very useful.” Trump also expressed satisfaction with the negotiations, praising a “good day in talks and meetings with Russia and Ukraine.”“They are very close to a…

Donald Trump, the indefatigable U.S. president, has once again shown he knows how to pull the strings of both the market and conservative passions. On Wednesday, he announced a private dinner at the Trump National Golf Club for the 220 top investors in his memecoin $TRUMP, causing its value to surge by 60% in just hours. While the left cries foul over ethics, free-market defenders applaud the boldness of a leader unafraid to blend politics with business. The event, scheduled for May 22, is touted as “the most exclusive invitation in the world,” according to the official $TRUMP website. The…

Emotional Oranges for ‘Rolling Stone Korea’KIMMOONDOG Emotional Oranges cemented themselves as architects of a new, global soul sound when silky, genre-bending songs like “West Coast Love,” “Sundays,” and “Motion” resonated with everyone from jazz festivalgoers to international pop stars. Today, the L.A.-based duo raised the stakes with a new single featuring Jaehyun of the experimental K-pop supergroup NCT. “Call It Off” arrives as a sumptuous mood-setting single and a statement of intent: Azad Naficy and Vali Porter are boldly bridging continents, sounds, sentiments and cultures within their upcoming Orenjii album. “Call It Off” is a reunion of sorts after Azad…

Manipulating research, using company funds to pay for private, in-room massages, asking junior staff to withdraw thousands of dollars for personal use, demanding senior management deliver a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. These are just some of the lurid allegations that pushed the World Economic Forum (WEF) to launch an investigation into its now departed founder, Klaus Schwab, after anonymous whistleblowers aired their concerns about the German octogenarian. The assertions – reportedly sent last week in a letter to the WEF, which organises the annual elite gathering of globalist devotees at Davos in Switzerland – accuse Schwab and his wife, Hilde,…

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) spoke at Harvard on Wednesday and told Harvard, in person, to stop discriminating against Jews and to pay taxes like other Americans. Scott’s journey into the belly of the beast came as Harvard President Alan Garber vowed not to compromise with the Trump administration over its demands for reform. President Donald Trump has suspended billions of dollars in federal grants to Harvard, and the Internal Revenue Service is said to be reviewing Harvard’s tax-exempt, non-profit status, due to its political stances. The administration wants Harvard to take a tougher line against antisemitism; to remove “diversity, equity,…

By Raphael SatterWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump’s purges and apparent acts of retribution aimed at top cyber officials put the nation’s digital defenses at risk, the former head of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said in a post on Friday.Trump’s recent moves to fire the two top National Security Agency (NSA) officials and order an investigation into the former head of CISA, Christopher Krebs, were part of a larger movement “that risks hollowing out – and worse, politicizing – the U.S. federal cyber ecosystem when we can least afford it,” said Jen Easterly, who succeeded Krebs at…