Gold hits record high as Trump threatens new steel and aluminium tariffs; BP shares jump after activist Elliott takes stake – business live

UK Steel fears “devastating blow” from Trump tariffs Trade body UK Steel has warned that the imposition of US tariffs on UK steel would be “a devastating blow” to the industry. UK Steel director general, Gareth Stace, says: The US …

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Key figure in Project 2025 expected to be confirmed as Trump’s budget chief – live

Bondi disbands FBI ‘foreign influence task force’ as Musk boosts Russia-linked hoax smearing USAid and Ben Stiller Attorney general Pam Bondi dissolved an FBI taskforce aimed at combatting foreign influence operations on Wednesday, the same day that a hoax news …

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Trump pauses plan to impose 25% tariff on Mexico after Sheinbaum agrees to deploy troops to southern US border – live

Tom Phillips Donald Trump has pulled back from the brink of a trade war with Canada and Mexico, postponing sweeping new US tariffs on goods from its two closest economic partners by one month. It is the third time in …

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Trump tariffs live: US president says ‘something substantial’ with tariffs coming to EU and plans to tax chips, oil and gas

Top Democrat calls firing of FBI officials ‘deeply alarming’ Senator Mark Warner, who is the vice-chair of the Senate intel committee, called the Trump administration’s decision to fire top FBI officials “deeply alarming”. “At a time when we are facing …

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Trump order to turn Guantánamo Bay into migrant detention center prompts outcry – live

Trump order to turn Guantánamo Bay into migrant detention center sparks outcry There has been a wave of criticism from across the country and around the globe to Donald Trump’s executive order instructing the military to prepare to house 30,000 …

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Trump inauguration live: president pardons January 6 rioters and exits Paris climate agreement in slew of executive orders

Key events Show key events only Please turn on JavaScript to use this feature Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping discussed Donald Trump and their relations with the US during a lengthy phone call on Tuesday. Citing …

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