Bevan Hurley

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Bevan Hurley

What you need to know President Trump said he was “disappointed in Elon” Musk after a rift with the so-called first buddy Russia and Ukraine are “like two children fighting in a park”, said Trump during a meeting with the German chancellor Musk and Trump descended into a war of words on social media, with the Tesla founder claiming Trump would have “lost the election” without him Nato members ‘willing to step up defence spending’ Mark Rutte, the Nato secretary-general, said that most US...

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Bevan Hurley

What you need to know President Trump is due to hold his first face-to-face talks with Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, at the White House at 1pm ET (6pm UK time) Merz is seeking to shore up US support for Ukraine and de-escalate trade tensions with the European Union Trump is likely to raise Germany’s lacklustre defence spending and what a White House official described as its “democratic backsliding” The chancellor’s extensive background in business and conservative views on...

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Bevan Hurley

Left-wing radicals are replacing white supremacists as the main threat to Jewish people in the United States, the rabbi from the Colorado synagogue where six congregants were injured in a terror attack has suggested. Marc Soloway, the head of the Congregation Bonai Shalom in Boulder, said the entire Jewish community was traumatised after Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, injured 12 people on Sunday by firebombing a group of marchers peacefully calling for the release of hostages held by Hamas.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Bevan Hurley

The mayor of New York City holds arguably one of the most powerful non-federal political positions in the United States, overseeing an annual budget of more than $110 billion, larger than that of most states. This month, on June 24, New Yorkers will be able to have their say in the first but essential election of the Democratic Party nominee for mayor.

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Bevan Hurley

What you need to know A man has been charged with murder, suspected of using a flamethrower and Molotov cocktails to set people alight at a march in support of Israeli hostages in Boulder, Colorado Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, of El Paso county in the state, also faces charges on several other felony offences Eight people aged from 67 to 88 were injured in what Phil Weiser, the Colorado attorney-general, called an antisemitic hate crime Despite the murder charges, no deaths have been formally...