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Billionaire Elon Musk has intensified his criticism of Donald Trump’s controversial $3.3 trillion spending bill, vowing that if the legislation passes Congress then he would immediately launch a new political party. US President Donald Trump’s widely anticipated ‘big, beautiful bill' is currently making its way through the US Senate which will bolster tax benefits for businesses and higher income households while threatening health insurance for millions of Americans. The bill, which is more than 900 pages long passed a significant hurdle on the weekend and passed a procedural vote advancing in the Senate largely along party lines with all but...

Europe's far-right political leaders have praised Donald Trump and said they wanted to "Make Europe Great Again" as they met in Madrid. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Italy's deputy premier Matteo Salvini, French National Rally party leader Marine Le Pen and Netherlands' PVV party founder Geert Wilders were among those at the gathering organised by Spanish far-right party, Vox. Referring to what he called "the Trump tornado", Mr Orban said the Republican candidate's victory in November's US presidential election and subsequent return to the White House had "changed the world in just a few weeks... yesterday we were heretics, today...

The last time MPs voted on the question of assisted dying - nearly three quarters were against it. Nine years later - polling suggests two thirds of the country would back a change in the law. That ratio is mirrored in the number of cabinet ministers who've so far publicly declared their position, with 10 for and five against (only nine have obeyed the instruction from Cabinet Secretary Simon Case not to get involved). But the bill's cabinet opponents have made some of the most high-profile interventions in the debate. Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood are...