These are the key developments on day 1,111 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Here is the situation on Tuesday, March 11: Fighting One civilian was killed and three more were reportedly injured in one of the biggest Ukrainian drone attacks on Moscow in months. Moscow’s Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said Russian air defence units destroyed at […]
Maybe that was a true reflection of reality. Our dogs regularly romped through Prospect Park in Brooklyn, swapped germs with playmates and scarfed down rogue chicken bones, while our cats lived cosseted, indoor lives. Now I suspect that we may have missed signs of illness in our cats. I had worried that we were overreacting […]
As President Trump addressed Congress last week, he veered off script to attack a sensitive topic, the CHIPS Act, a bipartisan law aimed at making the United States less reliant on Asia for semiconductors. Republican lawmakers had sought and received reassurances over the past few months that the Trump administration would support the program Congress […]
The U.S. power grid added more capacity from solar energy in 2024 than from any other source in a single year in more than two decades, according to a new industry report released on Tuesday. The data was released a day after the new U.S. energy secretary, Chris Wright, strongly criticized solar and wind energy […]
Republicans say medicaid cuts are off the table, but the Congressional Budget Office says the budget they’re proposing doesn’t work without them. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: House Republicans have to get their spending bill passed by Friday to avoid a government shutdown. They can likely afford to lose just one vote, and that’s the easy part. […]
The entire water and waste sector was privatised 34 years ago under the late Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government for £7.6bn. At the time, Mrs Thatcher wrote off the industry’s £5bn debt, leaving companies with a clean slate and gave them £1.5bn in public money. The government had wanted to privatise the industry in 1984 but […]
Amazon is deepening its relationship with President Trump. Amazon Prime Video announced on Monday that multiple seasons of “The Apprentice,” the 2000s reality series that helped raise Mr. Trump’s profile on a national stage, would soon be available on the streaming service. The show’s first season, which premiered in 2004, is available on Prime Video […]
Delta Air Lines on Monday cut its financial forecast for the first three months of the year, saying that growing economic concerns among businesses and consumers had lowered demand for domestic travel. The airline’s warning was the latest sign that the U.S. economy, or at least perceptions of it, have been weakening in part because […]
US stocks plunged on Monday as fears grew over an economic slowdown, after President Donald Trump did not rule out his tariffs triggering a recession. The Nasdaq sank by 4.0% at the close of trading, its largest single-day loss since 2022, and there were heavy losses on other markets with tech stocks seeing the largest […]
Holy See reports ‘improvements’ in recent days, indicating pontiff may soon be able to leave hospital. Pope Francis is responding well to hospital treatment for double pneumonia and his doctors no longer fear for his life, the Vatican says. The Vatican added on Monday that the 88-year-old pontiff’s condition was “stable” with doctors lifting their […]