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Trump had said defense bureau was high on list of world’s richest man’s federal budget and personnel slashing teamMembers of Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” arrived at the Pentagon Friday, in what appeared to be their first meeting with defense department staff, a US official told Reuters. The official spoke on condition of anonymity.Donald Trump has said the Pentagon would be an early target of Musk’s government budget and personnel slashing team and that he expects the tech billionaire to find hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and abuse in the department. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/elon-musk-government-efficiency-team-pentagon

Attorney general declines to refer Axel Rudakubana’s 52-year minimum sentence to unduly lenient sentence schemeThe sentence of the Southport killer will not be referred to the court of appeal under the unduly lenient sentence scheme, the attorney general has said.Axel Rudakubana, 18, was handed a 52-year minimum sentence for murdering three girls at a dance class, the second-longest sentence imposed by the courts in English history, but the Southport MP Patrick Hurley previously asked the attorney general to review the sentence as “unduly lenient”, saying it is “not severe enough”. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/15/southport-killers-sentence-will-not-be-referred-to-court-of-appeal Author : Donna Ferguson

US vice-president’s speech and meeting with Germany’s AfD chief signal administration’s wider plans for continentThe Trump administration is making a big bet on Europe’s hard right.Speaking at a conference of Europe’s leaders in Munich on Friday, the US vice-president JD Vance stunned the room by delivering what amounted to a campaign speech against Germany’s sitting government just one week before an election in which the anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim AfD is set to take second place. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/14/trump-vance-europe-far-right Author : Andrew Roth, Global affairs correspondent Publish date : 2025-02-14 23:14:00 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked

Andrew Lester pleaded guilty to lesser charge in shooting of Black honor student who mistakenly rang his doorbellAn 86-year-old Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to a lesser charge in the 2023 shooting of Ralph Yarl, a Black honor student who was then 16 and rang the man’s doorbell by mistake.Andrew Lester’s plea on Friday came days before he was supposed to stand trial on charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal action in the shooting of the teenaged student. Lester pleaded guilty to second-degree assault as part of a deal with prosecutors that averted the trial. Continue reading... Source