Padraig Belton Technology Reporter Mater The Mater hospital in Dublin – home to Ireland’s busiest emergency department For a country famous as Big Tech’s European address, Ireland’s hospitals often lag far behind in technology. They lack shared computerised patient records, or unique identifiers to track people when they move between clinics. In July 2024, a […]
President Donald Trump meets with British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the Oval Office on Thursday. Starmer is on his first visit to the White House since Trump returned to office. Carl Court/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Carl Court/Getty Images President Trump expressed confidence Thursday in reaching a peace deal between Ukraine and […]
Days before President Trump was inaugurated, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Capital One, accusing it of using deceptive tactics that the bureau said cheated customers out of $2 billion in interest payments on their savings accounts. On Thursday, the bureau abandoned that lawsuit and permanently waived its legal right to ever again pursue the […]
The United States economy is starting to show signs of strain as President Trump’s abrupt moves to shrink federal spending, lay off government workers and impose tariffs on America’s largest trading partners rattle businesses and reverberate across states and cities. Funding freezes and firings of federal workers combined with the prospect of costly trade wars […]
Vanessa Buschschlüter Latin America editor, BBC News Online Ione Wells South America correspondent Reuters Trump said he would rescind Chevron’s licence to export Venezuelan oil US President Donald Trump says he will revoke a license which allowed Venezuela to export some of its oil to the US despite sanctions. The move is a major blow […]
I am not a coder. I can’t write a single line of Python, JavaScript or C++. Except for a brief period in my teenage years when I built websites and tinkered with Flash animations, I’ve never been a software engineer, nor do I harbor ambitions of giving up journalism for a career in the tech […]
The Republican Party won the last election in no small part because of its new appeal with working-class voters, a shift that left many in Washington wondering if a sustained political realignment was afoot. But the economic agenda Republicans are now putting together on Capitol Hill would by and large help rich Americans, all while […]
We’re a month removed from the national championship game, and the players who transferred from Notre Dame and Ohio State have found homes. So that’s given us a good bit of separation from the winter transfer portal window. Now that there has been time to assess all the roster movement, The Athletic spoke to 13 […]
As the Trump administration imposes deep cuts on foreign aid and renewable energy programs, the World Bank, one of the most important financiers of energy projects in developing countries, is facing doubts over whether its biggest shareholder, the United States, will stay on board. While the Trump administration has voiced neither support nor antipathy for […]
President Trump delivers remarks during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Wednesday. During the meeting, Trump said he was looking at implementing tariffs against Canada and Mexico starting in April. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Andrew Harnik/Getty Images President Trump has suggested that there could be another delay for his proposal […]