Algeria has closed its airspace to all flights to and from Mali as the row over a drone that was shot down close to their common border escalates. On Sunday, Mali accused its northern neighbour of being a sponsor and exporter of terrorism after Algeria attacked one of its drones last week. A strongly worded […]
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has revealed there has been “progress” made in his contract negotiations amid continued speculation over his future at the club. Van Dijk’s deal is set to expire at the end of the season, with teammates Mohamed Salah and Trent Alexander-Arnold also coming to the end of their contracts in June. […]
President Trump’s plan to impose sweeping tariffs on most of America’s trading partners has governments across the globe racing to schedule phone calls, send delegations to Washington and offer up proposals to lower their import taxes in order to escape the levies. On Monday, European officials offered to drop tariffs to zero on cars and […]
Welcome to The Briefing, where every Monday during this season The Athletic will discuss three of the biggest questions to arise from the weekend’s Premier League football. This was the weekend when Aston Villa closed in on the Champions League places, Brighton & Hove Albion and Crystal Palace shared as many red cards as goals, Arsenal slipped up […]
Getty Images Bill Ackman switched allegiance to Trump before the 2024 presidential election A billionaire backer of Donald Trump has urged the US president to pause his recently announced trade tariffs, or risk “a self-induced, economic nuclear winter”. Amid market turmoil, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman said the president should take three months to allow […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spoken of an “existential threat” that he said can destroy the nation. “We have the highest chronic disease burden of any country in the world,” Mr. Kennedy said at a hearing in January before the Senate confirmed him as the secretary of Health and Human Services. And on Monday he […]
Ben Whelan is not the kind of carpenter to wax poetic about the joys of framing a wall or redoing a roof. Like a lot of men he knows, he started working in residential construction as a teenager because it was a reliable way to earn money. But he has a craftsman’s pride in knowing […]
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs have ignited wildfires across global stock markets, but does that mean we are heading for a recession? The first thing to stress is that what happens in the stock market is not the same as what happens in the economy – falling share prices do not always mean economic misery […]
The assisted-living facility in Edina, Minn., where Jean H. Peters and her siblings moved their mother in 2011, looked lovely. “But then you start uncovering things,” Ms. Peters said. Her mother, Jackie Hourigan, widowed and developing memory problems at 82, too often was still in bed when her children came to see her in mid-morning. […]
Tom Singleton Technology reporter Getty Images The Home Office has failed in its bid to keep all the details of its data privacy legal row with Apple out of the public domain. The UK government wants the right to be able access information secured by Apple’s Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system, citing powers given to […]