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Democrats blink in shutdown fight, hand Trump and GOP win before midterms
House Democrats have dropped their threat of a government shutdown, backing a Republican-authored stopgap funding bill that passed the House on Tuesday and now heads to President Donald Trump’s desk. The vote is the second such attempt since July and marks a political win for House Speaker Mike Johnson, who needed Democratic votes to pass…
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Nepal-China border flood death toll surpasses 1,000 as rescue operations intensify
Catastrophic flooding along the Nepal-China border, triggered by a Himalayan glacial collapse on 26 August, ultimately claimed more than 1,000 lives, with rescue and relief efforts continuing for days as crews dug through mud, rock and debris across remote, hard-to-reach terrain. The disaster began when the failure of bedrock beneath a glacier sent rock, ice…
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Burnham blames Brexit for ‘decade of low growth’ in UK
Prime Minister Andy Burnham used his first statement to the Commons since replacing Sir Keir Starmer to blame Brexit as one of a “series of wrong turns” that has left Britain with a “decade of low growth”. The remarks mark a notable shift in tone from Sir Keir’s leadership, with Burnham framing decentralisation, public ownership…
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Private equity’s London takeover spree goes on – and the politicians ignore it
Bodycote, a Macclesfield-based industrial firm and the world’s largest provider of heat treatment and metallurgical technologies, has agreed to be bought by US private equity firm Veritas for £1.65bn, or £1.85bn including debt. The deal is the latest in a long run of overseas takeovers of FTSE 250 industrial companies, undermining the government’s stated ambition…
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Netflix Sets Trump Doc About Secret Plane Swap in Turkey
Netflix will release “The Decoy Plane” on 4 September, an instalment of its Instadocs series examining how the White House secretly swapped out Donald Trump’s aircraft as he left a NATO summit in Turkey in July. Trump was filmed boarding Air Force One but then left via a catering truck to another plane, while reporters…
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Nepal-China border flood toll mounts as Swalwell search footage emerges
Rescuers piece together the human cost of the Himalayan flood disaster despite one Australian survivor’s rescue, US solar savings prospects improve, a Montana step-uncle kills eight family members, and NSW quietly drops “toxic masculinity” from official language.
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Seething MAGA warrior hands astonishing gift to Democrats after Trump’s ‘shocking’ move
South Carolina Republican congressman Ralph Norman publicly criticised President Donald Trump for intervening in the state’s bitter Senate Republican primary, repeatedly calling the president’s involvement “shocking”. Norman’s outburst came as Trump backed Senate candidate Graham, sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, and it exposed rifts within the GOP that could hand Democrats an unexpected…
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Vance calls Michigan Senate candidate El-Sayed ‘evil’ at campaign rally
US Vice-President JD Vance branded Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed “very, very evil” during a campaign rally for Republican rival Mike Rogers, accusing him of being divisive and linking him to controversial figures. The exchange has escalated an already bitter contest in a key battleground state, with Vance also warning El-Sayed to stop referencing his…