Although Bronze was only diagnosed as autistic in 2021, the news did not come as a huge surprise to her. “It was something I always knew about in a way,” she says. “My mum had spoken about it from a very young age and noticed things in me.” At school her condition manifested itself in […]
The Trump administration on Monday quietly rescinded an order that had blocked a major Dominican sugar producer with political ties to President Trump from shipping sugar to the United States because of allegations of forced labor at the company. U.S. Customs and Border Protection modified a “withhold release order” that had been issued in 2022 […]
Getty Images Spending time in space and having an unrivalled view of planet Earth is an experience many of us dream of. However, the human body evolved to function in the gravity of Earth. So time in the weightlessness of space can take years to fully recover from. Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore are […]
An Italian fugitive accused of having coordinated the shipment of large cocaine cargoes from Latin America to Europe has been arrested in Colombia. Colombia’s national police chief described Emanuele Gregorini, who is also known as “Dollarino”, as “the head of the Italian mafia Latin America”. He said Gregorini had been tracked down to an apartment […]
Getty Images The US central bank has kept interest rates unchanged for the second time in a row, while warning that economic uncertainty had increased. The decision, which was widely expected, left the Federal Reserve’s benchmark interest rate hovering around 4.3%, where it has stood since December. Forecasts released by the bank also showed policymakers […]
President Trump has said that tariffs will bring a flood of revenue for the United States. But corporate executives are having trouble navigating the volume of tariff pronouncements and the president’s on-again, off-again approach to trade policy. Many are turning to the same metaphor: The situation, they say, is “fluid.” “The tariffs are very fluid […]
Billionaire Elon Musk, the driving force behind United States President Donald Trump’s budget-cutting Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), has broached the sensitive issue of Social Security cost savings on the TV channel Fox Business. Musk told host Larry Kudlow, a former Trump economic adviser, that the Government Accountability Office estimated in 2024 that federal government […]
Since taking office, President Trump and his advisers have explained the president’s aggressive economic approach to tariffs with a litany of conflicting ideas. Other countries are “ripping off” America and need to be stopped. The United States is fighting a drug war with Canada, Mexico and China. Tariffs will help pay down the nation’s $36 […]
Mar 19, 2025, 07:00 AM ET Real Madrid have their sights set on AFC Bournemouth defender Dean Huijsen, while the race to sign Sunderland starlet Jobe Bellingham is heating up. Join us for the latest transfer news, rumours and gossip from around the globe. Transfers homepage | Done deals | Men’s January grades | Women’s […]
The Trump administration has put journalists at government-funded broadcasters, including Prague-based Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFERL), on leave on March 15 as it froze funding to them. MICHAL CIZEK/AFP via Getty Images/AFP hide caption toggle caption MICHAL CIZEK/AFP via Getty Images/AFP Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty sued the Trump administration on Tuesday to try to block […]