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Kanye West’s Yeezy online shopping platform has been taken down after selling T-shirts featuring a swastika.The rapper, also known as Ye, used a Super Bowl commercial on Sunday to send people to his website to buy the clothing emblazoned with the Nazi symbol – an image often used by the extreme-right. The ecommerce platform Shopify, which hosts many online shops and businesses, has deactivated his site and his domain name yeez.com is being sold for $98,999 (£79,692).Shopify said in an emailed statement to Sky News’ partner network NBC News: “All merchants are responsible for following the rules of our platform.…

Donald Trump has signed two proclamations imposing 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminium imports to the US.A proclamation is a form of presidential directive to government officials, but they do not carry the force of law, as an executive order would. However the White House has said the tariffs will take effect from 4 March.”This is a big deal,” Mr Trump said in the Oval Office as he announced the tariffs. “The beginning of making America rich again.”He added: “We were being pummelled by both friend and foe alike.” Read moreAnalysis: Trump’s steel and aluminium tariffs target a deeper…

A group led by Elon Musk has made a $97.4bn (£78.7bn) bid to buy OpenAI just months after the X owner sued the artificial intelligence start-up.Mr Musk co-founded OpenAI with its current chief executive Sam Altman in 2015, but left before the company took off after it released ChatGPT in late 2022. Initially launched as a non-profit, OpenAI is currently transitioning to a for-profit model – which it says it needs to do so it can afford to develop the best AI models.Mr Musk disagrees with the move and said in a press release about the bid: “It’s time for…

Kanye West has been criticised over a TV advert directing people to a website selling a swastika T-shirt during the Super Bowl.It shows him lying down, telling viewers: “I spent all the money for the commercial on these new teeth, so once again I had to shoot it on the iPhone… go to Yeezy.com.”The site now features nothing but a single T-shirt with a swastika on the front – alongside the code “HH-01” – believed to be a reference to “Heil Hitler”.The advert was shown in the Los Angeles area during the big game, but not nationwide. Image: The listing…

Companies are slowing investment until they see more momentum in the economy, according to a closely-watched report on employment conditions which warns that budget measures are “acting as brakes” on hiring.The Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) and KPMG’s latest snapshot on recruitment found permanent staff vacancies declined at the steepest rate since August 2020 last month. “Consultants reported redundancies at clients, and that the higher cost of employing staff related to government policies had continued to weigh on hiring activity,” the study said.Money latest: What it’s really like being a butcher”Temp billings were especially hard hit, falling at the fastest…

👉 Listen to Sky News Daily on your podcast app 👈The US is back in the race to the moon but this time, the competition is China. Determined not to lose, President Donald Trump is pushing for America to return to the moon, backed by billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos. But as costs rise and delays mount, could the focus shift from the moon to Mars?On the Sky News Daily podcast, Tom Cheshire speaks to Science and Technology editor Tom Clarke and space journalist Eric Berger about the escalating price of securing America’s place in the space race…

Robbie Williams has said he bought Eric Morecambe’s glasses and pipe because he has always seen the comedian as an “uncle of sorts”.The singer said he cried “happy, childlike tears” after submitting the top bid last month with a final offer of £20,000. This far exceeded the £2,000 to £4,000 estimate.In an Instagram post featuring photos of Williams using the glasses and pipe, he said he treated himself to the items ahead of his 51st birthday. Instagram This content is provided by Instagram, which may be using cookies and other technologies. To show you this content, we need your permission…

Reports of “ghost broking”, scammers selling fake car insurance, have risen by 30% over the last five years, exclusive data obtained by Sky News reveals.Ghost brokers sell false policies to drivers, manipulate information given to genuine insurance companies, or take out insurance and cancel it straight away. This leaves people without valid car insurance, which is illegal. Wayne Simpson lost over £500 to a ghost broker.He was looking for cheap car insurance and saw an advertisement on social media for a deal which was half the price of other companies.He bought the policy, and it was only when he tried…

Residents who live near disused coal tips in South Wales say lessons have not been learned from the Aberfan disaster nearly 60 years on.Their comments come after a disused coal tip in Cwmtillery, Blaenau Gwent, partially collapsed in November, forcing around 40 homes to be evacuated.A coal tip is made up of waste material from coal mining, many of which have existed for several decades. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player 1:09 Evacuations after coal tip collapses Dianne Morgan, 68, has lived in the house she had built in the Cwmtillery ward for the last 10…

Demi Moore, Zoe Saldana, Kieran Culkin and Adrien Brody are among the big winners of this year’s Critics Choice Awards.Moore took home the best actress award for her performance in The Substance, in which she plays a fading Oscar winner who discovers a black-market drug to create a younger model of herself. The prize adds to her Golden Globe win and Oscar nomination in what has been her first acknowledgement for major Hollywood awards, after decades in the business.”This has been such a wild ride, I can’t tell you when I started this journey on this film, I could never…