Dr. Marty Makary may face sharp questions from senators about whether he will defend the Food and Drug Administration against staff cutbacks and industry pressure on Thursday, although he is still expected to sail through his confirmation hearing to become the agency’s commissioner. Dr. Makary built his reputation as a contrarian in the medical field, […]
The first legs of this season’s UEFA Champions League round-of-16 ties are done and dusted. Arsenal already have one foot in the quarterfinals thanks to their 7-1 demolition of PSV Eindhoven, but the rest of the matchups are mostly delicately poised. How on earth did Paris Saint-Germain lose 1-0 to Liverpool? Which teams need to […]
Fighting off a takeover by a Canadian rival, the Japanese parent company of 7-Eleven announced a major business shake-up that included the appointment of its first foreign-born chief executive. Seven & i Holdings said on Thursday that Stephen Dacus, 64, a member of the company’s board of directors and longtime retail executive from the United […]
A patient from Telford who needed a lifesaving treatment developed from blood plasma has thanked donors. Over the past three years, thousands of litres of blood from donors across England has been stored and now it has been turned into immunoglobulin, which helps the body’s immune response. It marks the first time in 25 years […]
Sean Dilley Transport Correspondent Molly Stazicker Transport producer PA 1,700 railway stations in England will prominently display train cancellation and delay data from today Millions of passengers will see train cancellation and delay data published prominently at over 1,700 railway stations in England from Thursday. The data will update every 28 days showing statistics for […]
Two weeks after their bank accounts were frozen amid a swirl of investigations by the Trump administration, nonprofit organizations that were supposed to receive $20 billion to help curb climate change are still unable to withdraw money, raising concerns about their ability to pay staff. The accounts were frozen by Citibank, which holds the money, […]
Warren Buffett, the famed investor who runs the sprawling conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway, described tariffs as “an act of war” in an interview with CBS that aired on Sunday. “Over time they’re a tax on goods,” Mr. Buffett said, responding to a question about their inflationary impact, suggesting that consumers will face higher prices as a […]
GLASTONBURY, Conn. — It’s mid-afternoon on a Sunday and, from the front of Dan Hurley’s house, you can turn around and look clear across Connecticut. Over Manchester, over South Windsor, over Enfield, all the way to Massachusetts. Hundreds of miles. In the distance, the horizon line is cut by national parks in Vermont. Hurley once […]
About 36.6 million Americans watched President Trump live on television on Tuesday night, tuning in for his 100-minute speech to a joint session of Congress — the longest of its kind in the modern era. Nielsen, the ratings agency, said the live television audience for Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging and often pugilistic address was up 13 […]
Jorn Madslien Business reporter Saab The boss of Sweden’s Saab, which makes the Gripen fighter, says it is now easier for it to win Nato deals War, cross-border conflict and geopolitical upheaval are rarely deemed good for business. Yet that appears to have been the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on two of the […]