Jeffrey A. Singer The US and the European Union released details of their trade “framework agreement” yesterday. If the deal goes through, American patients can expect to pay more for pharmaceuticals. But it could have been much worse, as I wrote in April. At that time, President Trump threatened a 250 percent tariff on all imports from the EU. About ...
David Inserra Americans generally don’t have to worry about online platforms removing speech because one person complains. We get into Facebook arguments, engage in debates on Reddit, criticize a podcaster or journalist on YouTube, laugh or wince at gamer hot takes on Twitch, or complain about the fairness of a Wikipedia entry all the time—but we aren’t concerned that some ...
Yvette Cooper, the Home Secretary, is preparing to appeal a High Court ruling that ordered the closure of a migrant hotel in Essex, amid warnings the case could set a precedent for asylum housing across the UK. Dan Jarvis, the security minister, confirmed on Wednesday that the Home Office will seek to overturn the temporary injunction forcing the shutdown of ...
The Department of Justice (DOJ) is set to begin turning over documents related to Jeffrey Epstein to the House Oversight Committee Friday. Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., told reporters Thursday that he had no timeline for when materials would be sent over, but confirmed he still expected files Friday. Comer suggested that documents would be made public at some point ...
OnlyFans has paid a record dividend of $701m (£523m) to its Ukrainian-born owner Leonid Radvinsky, marking the latest in a series of bumper payouts as the adult-content platform prepares for a potential sale. The payout comes after a surge in user spending helped OnlyFans’ parent company, Fenix International, deliver another year of rapid growth. The site, best known for its ...
The government has assumed control of Sanjeev Gupta’s biggest steelmaking operation in a dramatic intervention that leaves it overseeing more than half of Britain’s steel industry. On Thursday, the official receiver stepped in to take charge of the Rotherham steelworks in South Yorkshire after the High Court approved a winding-up petition from creditors. The ruling forced Gupta’s Speciality Steel UK ...
The White House made headlines this week by finally joining TikTok. As someone who has been urging Republican leadership to modernize our outreach to young people for years, I believe this is a long-overdue step in the right direction. But joining TikTok isn’t enough on its own. To win over the next generation of voters, this White House must go ...
JCB has warned it could lose “hundreds of millions of pounds” after the US government unexpectedly extended tariffs on steel and aluminium to cover finished goods, dealing a blow to one of Britain’s best-known engineering firms. The Trump administration confirmed on Monday that the 25 per cent tariffs already applied to components would now include all machines exported to the ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he wants a ‘strong reaction’ from the U.S. government if Russian President Vladimir Putin does not sit down with him for a bilateral meeting. This comes as U.S. President Donald Trump is seeking to broker a peace agreement between the two countries that have been at war since Moscow’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine, although ...
The Trump administration scored a major victory in the Supreme Court Thursday as the justices, in a 5-4 order, cleared his administration to slash more than $783 million in National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants tied to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, LGBTQ issues and other hot-button topics. The unsigned majority order said NIH ‘may proceed with terminating existing ...