Politics

PM vows to act against people ‘venerating the murder of Jews’ as terror threat level rises

Keir Starmer pledges crackdown on protesters chanting or displaying antisemitic slogans as terror attack is assessed to be ‘highly likely’

US court refuses to hear Trump’s appeal of E Jean Carroll $83m defamation case

Decision from federal appeals court comes almost 18 months after Trump appealed following 2024 election win

Trump tells Merz to ‘fix his broken country’ in new attack on German chancellor

US president’s latest outburst comes a day after he suggested a ‘possible reduction’ in US troops in Germany

Israel intercepts and detains crews of Gaza aid flotilla near Crete

Global Sumud Flotilla describes interception as ‘violent raid’ while Turkey condemns it as ‘act of piracy’

Political donations are poison to our democracy – but there’s an easy antidote to that

As revelations about Reform UK’s donors emerge, it’s clear that increasingly complex forms of patronage can’t be regulated effectively. We need a clean sweep

What is the US supreme court’s voting rights ruling about and will it affect midterms?

Rightwing justices in Louisiana v Callais led 6-3 vote to redraw congressional maps in blow to Voting Rights Act