The UK economy slowed sharply in the second quarter of 2025, with official figures confirming growth of just 0.3% between April and June, a marked deceleration from the 0.7% expansion in the first quarter. Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that while the latest quarterly figure was unrevised, revisions to earlier estimates suggest growth in much of ...
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth has blocked a new wave of terminations at Voice of America, offering harsh words for Kari Lake and saying the Trump administration’s conduct in his case would support civil contempt proceedings, if only the plaintiffs had asked. In the 19-page ruling, Judge Lamberth halted the mass reduction in force at the U.S. Agency for Global ...
Let’s roll back the clock. After the 2020 election, Donald Trump found himself the target of multiple investigations. The flimsiest, and most partisan, was brought by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, who somehow elevated the Stormy Daniels payoffs from a misdemeanor to a felony, and got a conviction. Then there was Jack Smith, who launched two investigations — one involving classified ...
Electronic Arts, the gaming giant behind FIFA / EA Sports FC, The Sims and Battlefield, is set to leave the public markets under a record-setting leveraged buyout valued at $55 billion. The deal, announced on Monday, will see EA delisted from the Nasdaq and become a privately held company under a consortium led by Silver Lake, Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment ...
Speculation over government tax reforms is beginning to cast a shadow over the upper end of the UK housing market, according to new figures from Zoopla. The property portal reported that demand for homes priced above £500,000 has slipped by 4 per cent compared with last year, while the number of buyers searching for £1 million-plus homes has fallen by ...
Thousands of taxpayers risk falling foul of HMRC’s rules this autumn, with two crucial deadlines approaching in October. Missing either of them could leave households facing an instant £100 fine, with penalties spiralling to as much as £1,600 for serious delays. Andrea L Richards, accountant and chief executive of Accounts Navigator, has urged individuals to act swiftly to avoid unnecessary ...
YouTube has agreed to a $24.5 million settlement to resolve a lawsuit President Donald Trump filed over the platform’s suspension of his account in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. Under the terms, $22 million will be channelled “on Trump’s behalf” to the Trust for the National Mall, a nonprofit that is overseeing the construction of ...
Republican and Democratic congressional leaders left a meeting with President Donald Trump with no deal to avert a government shutdown as the deadline fast approaches. Leaders met with Trump on Monday for roughly an hour to negotiate a path forward to avert a partial government shutdown, but it appeared neither side was willing to budge from their position. Vice President ...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu apologized to Qatar for striking its territory during a meeting with President Donald Trump, the White House said Monday. Israel’s military targeted senior Hamas leadership in Qatar with an airstrike earlier this month that also killed a Qatari security official. Trump distanced himself from Netanyahu’s decision to strike a top ally in the Middle East, ...
President Donald Trump is flexing new leverage in the war in Ukraine — allowing the nation to use U.S. weapons to strike deep into Russia, weighing whether to provide Kyiv with Tomahawk cruise missiles and vowing Ukraine can take back all its land — while pressing China and India to slash purchases of Russian oil. Ukraine supporters are cheering the ...