Trump Backs Conservative Author Who Confronted Joe Rogan to His Face – The Daily Beast

  1. Trump Backs Conservative Author Who Confronted Joe Rogan to His Face  The Daily Beast
  2. Joe Rogan Podcast Guest Confronts Him for Platforming ‘Counter-Historical’ Views: ‘Just Raising Questions Is Not a Valid Thing’  Yahoo
  3. The Edge Lords  Tablet Magazine
  4. Douglas Murray Is Asking Real Questions  National Review
  5. Joe Rogan Scolded by Own Guest for Pushing Conspiracy Theories  The Hollywood Reporter
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What to Know About Who Pays the Higher Costs of Trump’s Tariffs – The New York Times

  1. What to Know About Who Pays the Higher Costs of Trump’s Tariffs  The New York Times
  2. ‘I Hope I Am Wrong, but I Am Pretty Pessimistic’: Four Economists Dissect Trump’s Tariffs  The New York Times
  3. Trump's tariff tantrum showed why he's wrong about global trade  MSNBC News
  4. The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions  Foreign Policy
  5. Winners and losers from the Trump tariffs drama  The Hill
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Why is British Steel in trouble, who owns it and what has the government done? – BBC

  1. Why is British Steel in trouble, who owns it and what has the government done?  BBC
  2. UK takes control of British Steel under emergency powers  BBC
  3. British Government Takes Control of Country’s Last Major Steel Mill  The New York Times
  4. British government takes over running of UK’s last major steel plant from Chinese owner Jingye  CNN
  5. Britain plots state control of a flailing steelmaker. Here’s why.  politico.eu
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Judge allows resentencing hearings for Menedez brothers to continue

Erik and Lyle Menendez were convicted of parents’ murders at Beverly Hills home in 1989

A judge has decided the resentencing hearings for Erik and Lyle Menendez, who were convicted of murdering their parents, can continue despite a new Los Angeles district attorney opposing their release after 30 years behind bars.

The brothers appeared in court over Zoom on Friday for the proceedings.

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Rageh Omaar returns to ITV’s News at Ten after illness on live programme

International affairs editor was taken to hospital last year after appearing shaky and struggling to read news

The broadcaster Rageh Omaar has carried out his first foreign dispatch for ITV since he was taken to hospital last year after falling ill while presenting the News at Ten.

The ITV News international affairs editor, 57, featured in a prerecorded package on west Africa on ITV’s News at Ten on Friday evening.

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Documents reveal Trump’s plan to gut funding for Nasa and climate science

Critics say Nasa faces ‘extinction-level event’ with budget plan, with climate research funding also to be slashed

Donald Trump shows no signs of easing his assault on climate science as plans of more sweeping cuts to key US research centers surfaced on Friday.

The administration is planning to slash budgets at both the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (Noaa) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa), according to internal budget documents, taking aim specifically at programs used to study impacts from the climate crisis.

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Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree

Mahdi, who killed an officer in 2004, endured torture in his childhood and argued he was denied a fair trial

A prison firing squad in South Carolina executed Mikal Mahdi on Friday, the second recent death row killing in the state by authorized gunfire.

Mahdi, 42, was shot dead by corrections employees inside the execution chamber, where authorities have carried out a rapid spree of killings as South Carolina aggressively revives capital punishment.

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