President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to meet in person on Friday for the first time in six years when they get together in Anchorage, Alaska. Here is a history of Trump’s high-stakes interactions with Putin while being President of the United States: 2015 – Early mutual admiration between Putin and Trump Mutual admiration was publicly ...
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., is threatening to sue the Trump administration if they don’t release the Epstein files. Late last month, Schumer and every Senate Democrat on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee invoked an arcane, nearly century-old law to compel the Trump administration to release information on Jeffrey Epstein. The move came as Epstein drama ...
Eli Lilly will raise the UK price of its Mounjaro weight-loss drug by up to 170% from September, after pressure from US President Donald Trump for pharmaceutical companies to increase overseas prices to help lower costs for American patients. The US drugmaker said it was acting to address “pricing inconsistencies compared to other developed countries” and would align the UK ...
British employees are unhappier in their jobs than workers in India, the Philippines and the US, according to new research that has reignited concerns about the UK’s flagging productivity. A global survey of 70,000 employees by consultancy WorkL found UK staff reported higher levels of workplace anxiety and lower happiness than counterparts in countries including South Africa, Kenya, the United ...
Jeffrey A. Singer Earlier this month, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, Charles Fain Lehman highlighted a working paper released on July 30 by criminologists (Boehme et al.) from the University of South Carolina and the University of Nebraska that examined the effects of short-term drug decriminalization in Oregon and Washington on arrest and crime rates. In November 2020, Oregon voters approved ...
Matthew Cavedon The Cato Institute, the Southern Policy Law Center, and the Woods Foundation joined an ACLU legal brief on August 14 that urges the Supreme Court of Alabama to hold that the stop-and-question law does not require anyone to produce physical proof of their identity. Here are the details. In May 2022, appellant Pastor Michael Jennings went to his ...
The UK’s bioethanol industry is facing collapse after the government confirmed it will not offer a rescue package to the country’s two biggest producers. Hull-based Vivergo Fuels and Ensus in Redcar, Teesside, had warned they would be forced to shut down following a US-UK trade deal that removed a 19% tariff on ethanol imports from America, allowing up to 1.4bn ...
British small business owners are being urged to shed their modesty and celebrate their wins after new research found those who do enjoy significantly faster growth. A study commissioned by accounting software firm Xero found that UK companies which actively marked milestones with staff saw average annual revenue growth of 30%, compared to just 19% for those that took a ...
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Shein’s UK sales surged by nearly a third last year to reach £2bn, delivering a major profit boost for the Chinese-founded fast-fashion retailer as it tightens its grip on the British clothing market. Newly filed accounts for Shein Distribution UK Ltd show sales rose 32.3% to £2.05bn in 2024, with pre-tax profit jumping 57% to £38.3m from £24.4m in 2023. ...