Selwyn Raab, an investigative reporter for The New York Times and other news organizations who in exacting detail explored the Mafia’s many tentacles, and whose doggedness helped lead to the exoneration of men wrongly convicted of notorious 1960s killings, died on Tuesday in Manhattan. He was 90. His son-in-law, Matthew Goldstein, a Times reporter, said […]
The Treasury has earmarked several billion pounds in draft spending cuts to welfare and other government departments amid expectations the chancellor’s room for manoeuvre has all but been wiped out. The department will put the proposed cuts to the Office of Budget Responsibility (OBR), the official forecaster, on Wednesday ahead of the Spring Statement later […]
Nicola Hughes hid a covert camera in a radio in her mother’s bedroom at the care home. Mona McAlinden BBC Scotland news A woman secretly filmed her mother’s mistreatment in a care home after concerns she raised about her care were ignored. Nicola Hughes, who is a registered nurse, hid a covert camera in a […]
Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is reviewing a request for Pete Rose to be removed from MLB’s permanently ineligible list, which could lead to his eventual selection to the National Baseball Hall of Fame. According to reports published last Saturday, Manfred met with Rose’s daughter, Fawn, and his former lawyer Jeffrey Lenkov about reinstatement […]
A trade war with China during President Trump’s first term hit American farmers hard. This time, it could be worse. On Tuesday, China’s Ministry of Finance said it would add tariffs of as much as 15 percent on a wide range of food imports from the United States, including chicken, wheat, corn and cotton. Beijing’s […]
What’s the air quality in New Delhi, Jakarta or Buenos Aires? Until Tuesday, the United States Embassy in those cities could have told you. But the Trump administration has effectively shut down a global air quality monitoring program, ending more than a decade of public data-collection and reporting from 80 embassies and consulates worldwide. The […]
Sam Marsden Moises Llorens Mar 4, 2025, 02:16 PM ET Barcelona coach Hansi Flick says it is not his job to decide if the LaLiga leaders should bring Neymar back this summer. Neymar, 33, left Al Hilal for boyhood club Santos in January, but he only signed a short-term deal, leaving the window open for […]
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped its lawsuit against the payment network Zelle and three of its owner banks. Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Zelle hide caption toggle caption Roy Rochlin/Getty Images for Zelle The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has dropped its lawsuit against the operator of payment platform Zelle and three of its parent […]
A measles outbreak that has spread over a swath of West Texas, killing one child, shows no signs of slowing, according to data announced on Tuesday by state health officials. The Texas Department of Health reported that since late January, nearly 160 people have contracted measles — 20 more cases than reported on Friday — […]
Comments from a member of President Trump’s cabinet over the weekend have renewed concerns that the new administration could seek to interfere with federal statistics — especially if they start to show that the economy is slipping into a recession. In an interview on Fox News on Sunday, Howard Lutnick, the commerce secretary, suggested that […]