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The US president’s recent behavior is strange to many, from reposting a false AI video of himself to confusing comments during press conferencesTo many observers, both in the US and abroad, Donald Trump has been behaving strangely recently. Especially online.As a government shutdown loomed in the US last week, the president posted an AI video which depicted Hakeem Jeffries, the first Black House minority leader, wearing a sombrero and exaggerated moustache, with mariachi music playing in the background. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/05/trump-behavior-online-posts Author : Adam Gabbatt in New York Publish date : 2025-10-05 14:00:00 Copyright for syndicated content

The communications minister plans to press companies on their legal obligations to protect community safety and procedures to avoid outagesThe federal government will grill the bosses of Australia’s biggest telecommunications companies over the reliability of triple-zero services in the looming summer bushfire season, as Labor fast-tracks laws to protect the emergency call system.On the back foot over Labor’s response to recent Optus triple-zero outages which have been linked to three deaths, the communications minister, Anika Wells, has ordered the chief executive of the company, as well as the chief executives of Telstra and TPG, the owner of Vodafone, to travel

New measures will make it easier for police to stop protests by considering ‘cumulative’ effect of demonstrationsThe polling firm Opinium has released some research this morning suggesting that some Conservative party policies are popular with voters – but that, if people are explicitly told that they are Kemi Badenoch policies, their popularity goes down.There is some evidence that Keir Starmer’s unpopularity has the same effect – and that, once a policy is associated with him, voters are less inclined to back it. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/oct/05/conservative-tory-conference-kemi-badenoch-echr-immigration-uk-politics-live-news-updates Author : Andrew Sparrow Publish date : 2025-10-05 09:03:00 Copyright for syndicated

Billionaire suing Gambling Commission for up to £1.3bn over licence award, with payout potentially funded by the taxpayerThe media billionaire Richard Desmond will begin a bitter courtroom battle with the Gambling Commission this week that could cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of pounds in a row over the licence to run the National Lottery.Northern & Shell and The New Lottery Company (TNLC), owned by Desmond, are suing the gambling regulator for up to £1.3bn, alleging “manifest errors” in the labyrinthine competition process for Britain’s largest public sector contract, the lottery licence. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/05/richard-desmond-legal-action-over-national-lottery-award-to-begin-at-high-court Author : Rob