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The world saw through the spectacle for what it was: the whim of a self-styled strongman in need of flattery and adoration

Like the hapless Fantasia character, Donald Trump has learned that wielding the axe without experience, humility and understanding ends in chaos

The short-lived former prime minister's op-ed for Jeff Bezos's newspaper did not go down well with readers

Trump doesn’t care about the bombing of Iran, or global security. Now Europe must fill the volatile vacuum he has left behind

The hammer of high interest rates is no longer the way to deal with pressure on prices

Leading neurotechnologist Philip Low and the world’s richest man were once inseparable. Now, in an exclusive interview, Low explains why he calls his ally a power-mad narcissist – and predicts how Musk will react now Trump has turned on him

Trump is always one pen stroke away from upending the lives of thousands of people. After the past few weeks, I feel as if I’m on the chopping block too

Before Trump, there was William F Buckley Jr – the reactionary showman who shaped our modern culture wars

Elon Musk’s claims that the president is ‘in the Epstein files’ may hinge on photographs of him ‘surrounded by topless young women’

The big White House fallout is like watching a pair of young boys who’ve drunk too much Red Bull – it’s just a shame they’re the richest, most powerful men on earth

His life took him from the blood-stained cellars of Texas to a place in the sporting pantheon

Trump’s disdain for ‘Good old Germany’ is well known. Will the chancellor hold his own on his first official trip to the White House?

The philosopher’s 1981 book After Virtue suggested that modern morality is fragmented and rootless – an argument that still stands today

In dog-obsessed Chicago, pets dominate social life and identity, leaving non-owners feeling alienated, bemused and increasingly outnumbered

Digging into the detail and data to separate the noise from the news

It’s high noon for American democracy. Can the Supreme Court hold the line against MAGA’s madness?

A tangled drama involving Elon Musk, former Trump staffer Katie Miller and her husband Stephen is provoking Washington whispers

The president took to his own Truth Social platform to share his latest unhinged theory

His attempt to grab control of the internet is perhaps the biggest threat of all

Our continent runs on US tech. With Trump in the White House, that no longer feels safe – and plans are taking shape for a way out

Trump plays so often and is so obsessed with the game that his administration is now a golf course company with a government attached

Truly groundbreaking scientific discoveries may be on the decline – but it’s not because we’ve run out of big ideas

She had nowhere to hide but, as both documentary and book are at pains to point out, just because she wanted to be alone it did not necessarily mean she shunned personal contact

A Conservative peer has written to government ministers urging them to get behind a call for the US president to win the Nobel Peace Prize

The Russian president got exactly what he wanted out of the latest round of talks in Istanbul

The Japanese invasion of China, the D-day landings, the founding of Israel – no war was too small for Capa, no battlefield too bloody

Having saved the world numerous times on the big screen, could the star be tempted to sort out the world’s problems via political office?

The US has long led the science world but now, researchers are moving abroad to continue their work

It’s possible to feel the deepest sympathy for Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and still be appalled by the cover-up of his cognitive decline