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Paramount Unveils "Superior Alternative" Offer For Warner Bros As Bidding War With Netflix Accelerates Update (0950ET): The bidding war between Netflix and Paramount for Warner Bros.' film and television studios, including HBO and HBO Max, is intensifying heading into the US cash session on Monday morning. Paramount has raised its bid with a $30-per-share, all-cash tender offer for all of Warner Bros. Discovery, stating in a press release that its proposal is a "superior alternative" to Netflix's deal announced last Friday. Deal highlights: > Price: An all-cash offer at $30.00 per share, equating to an enterprise value of $108.4 billion, which represents a 139% premium

Trump Expected To Roll Out $12 Billion Farm Aid Program Today The Trump administration on Monday is planning to roll out a $12 billion farm aid package to help producers hurt by the trade war, which will include up to $11 billion in one-time payments to crop farmers under the Department of Agriculture's newly designed Farmer Bridge Assistance program. The rest of the aid will go to crops not covered by the FBA, Bloomberg reports, citing an anonymous White House official.  Soybeans grow in a field in front of a barn sporting a large Trump sign in rural Ashland, Neb. (Nati Harnik / Associated Press) The

Tesla Shares Slip After Morgan Stanley Downgrades To Equal-Weight From Overweight Tesla shares slipped about 1.5% in early trading on Monday after Morgan Stanley cut its rating on the stock to Equal-weight from Overweight, even as the firm raised its price target to $425 from $410. With Tesla changing hands around $455 into the move, the new target implies modest downside and a more balanced risk-reward profile in the eyes of the bank’s analysts. The downgrade also coincides with a notable change in coverage leadership. Longtime Tesla watcher Adam Jonas is no longer the primary analyst on the name. Coverage is now

"The Days Of Censoring Americans Online Are Over": Senior US Diplomats Slam EU's "Attack" On American Tech Platform X Authored by Jacob Burg via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and several other senior U.S. officials have criticized the internet policies of the European Union (EU), likening them to censorship, after the governing bloc last week levied Elon Musk’s social media platform X with a $140 million fine for breaching its online content rules. On Dec. 5, EU tech regulators fined X 120 million euros (about $140 million) following a two-year investigation under the Digital Services Act, concluding that the

Trump Readies "One-Rule" Executive Order Aimed At Centralizing AI Regulation President Trump continues to argue that a single, national set of rules, otherwise known as a "One Rulebook," governing the artificial intelligence industry is essential, rather than a patchwork of state-by-state regulations that would slow development amid a superpower race with China. This comes as Trump's national strategy to build out data centers, revitalize the industrial base, restart rare-earth mining and refining operations, and upgrade power grids becomes vital to maintaining America's tech dominance in the years ahead. "There must be only One Rulebook if we are going to continue to lead

Confluent Shares Erupt After Report Of $11 Billion IBM Takeover Bid Confluent shares skyrocketed in premarket trading in New York after a Wall Street Journal report revealed that IBM is in talks to buy the data infrastructure company for $11 billion. The deal could be announced as soon as today. > *IBM acquiring Confluent in $11 billion all-cash deal > *IBM: Confluent Deal Represents Enterprise Value of $11 Billion > > — zerohedge (@zerohedge) December 8, 2025 Confluent is a data-infrastructure software company built around Apache Kafka, an open-source technology created at LinkedIn and later spun out. It offers a streaming data platform that lets

Futures Rise For 10th Day In Past 11 With Fed Rate Cut Looming With just 17 trading sessions left in 2025, stock futures edge higher again and are on pace for 10 gains in the past 11 days. S&P 500 futures were up 0.2% as of 5:32 a.m. in New York, with Nasdaq 100 contracts +0.3%. Pre-market, Mag 7 are mostly unchanged except for a -1.3% decline in TSLA on a downgrade from Morgan Stanley. Most Asian markets clock firm start to the week, while European markets are mixed. Bond yields are 1-2bp higher and the USD is flat after reversing

Oil Reclaims Key Levels, Forcing Shorts To Blink WTI moved back above its 50-day moving average Friday and is fighting to hold above $60 this morning.  A market that spent weeks obsessing over punishing oversupply is now being forced to respect a technical line that encourages short covering rather than fresh selling. As Bloomberg macro strategist, Michael Ball writes, a return to a war premium is warranted as a genuine peace deal between the Ukraine and Russia remains elusive. Ukrainian negotiators are headed into another round of talks in Florida, while Russia is already objecting to parts of the US-backed plan and waiting on a

The Stages Of A Color Revolution... And Where America Is Right Now Authored by Kevin Finn via AmericanThinker.com, A “color revolution” (sometimes called a “soft coup” or “regime-change operation by non-kinetic means”) is a modern form of orchestrated political upheaval designed to replace an existing government without traditional military invasion or civil war. The term arose from events in the early 2000s, such as Serbia’s Bulldozer Revolution (2000) and Georgia’s Rose Revolution (2003).  These operations follow a remarkably consistent playbook, refined over two decades by Western NGOs, intelligence-linked foundations, and State Department-affiliated entities (Open Society Foundations, USAID, etc.). Authors describe seven stages of a color revolution. The stages include these tactics,

Trump-Brokered Ceasefire Falters As Thailand Launches F-16 Airstrikes On Cambodia Thailand launched fighter-jet bombing raids against Cambodian positions along their highly contested border, risking a complete unraveling of the ceasefire brokered by President Trump. Reuters cites Thai officials who claim Cambodian troops first opened fire across several border positions with machine-guns and heavy weapons, killing two Thai soldiers and wounding eight. The attack prompted Thai F-16 strikes, combined with ground operations, against Cambodian forces. Bangkok claims Cambodia violated the ceasefire deal and was positioning additional troops and long-range weapons that could threaten high-value civilian assets along the border, including an airport and a

Hedge Fund CIO: "Trump's NSS Report Reads Like A Cold War Playbook. Deploy Capital Accordingly" By Eric Peters, CIO of One River Asset Management “What are America’s core foreign policy interests? What do we want in and from the world?” wrote the authors of the newly released ‘National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America.’ The NSS is the kind of report I like to read. Because sometimes, policy people tell you what they’re thinking. It’s helpful to take it at face value, incorporating it into your mental model. “We want to ensure that the Western Hemisphere remains reasonably stable

'Fourth Reich': Musk Strikes Back At EU 'Tyrants' After X Fine Update (1300ET): Elon Musk is not taking the outrageous fine from Brussels bureaucrats lying down, lashing out at EU officialdom for taking on Nazi characteristics and oppressing their own citizens’ best interests... > The tyrannical, unelected bureaucracy oppressing the people of Europe are in the second picture https://t.co/j6CFFbajJa > > — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 7, 2025 As Catherine Salgado reports for PJMedia.com, Musk also re-shared a post about Irish teacher Enoch Burke, who was jailed for refusing to use transgender pronouns, and later replied to another user, “So many politicians in Europe who are traitors to

Once Again, London Has The Most Pathetic Christmas Tree On The Planet Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, This weekend, London officially turned on it’s Christmas tree lights… Revealing once again the most tired looking pathetic tree and decorations on the planet. The London Mayor Sadiq Khan was there, pretending to be impressed by a display into which less effort has gone than than your Dad’s half baked effort in the early 1980’s with 20 year old stuff scraped together from out of the attic. > The Christmas lights switch on and tree in Trafalgar Square, London. I was expecting better than last years

US Issues NATO's European Members New Self-Defense Deadline European members of NATO have been warned by Washington that they must assume greater responsibility for the alliance's intelligence operations and missile production - which will require significantly more defense spending by 2027, Reuters has reported. Reuters in its exclusive Friday report said that the United States "wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO's conventional defense capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week, a tight deadline that struck some European officials as unrealistic." "The message, recounted by five sources familiar with the discussion, including a

Europe's Innovation Is Drowned In A Sea Of Government Intervention Authored by Mihai Macovei via The Mises Institute, Europe became prosperous through a burst of innovation and capital accumulation during the eighteenth-century industrial revolution that allowed individual freedom to replace feudalistic rents and privileges. A new industrial revolution based on digitalization, advanced artificial intelligence (AI) and automation is in the making, but the reputed analyst Wolfgang Münchau claims that Europe is about to miss it. In his view, Europe has forgotten how to innovate, because it may still have the aptitude, but it has lost the right attitude to foster creative destruction. Münchau and other analysts put

Can Europe Keep Ukraine Armed With Limited US Aid? Over the past two years, Western support for Ukraine has undergone a drastic change, marked by a surge in European commitments and a notable retreat in U.S. engagement. According to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy's Ukraine Support Tracker, European countries have become the leading providers of government aid to Ukraine, allocating almost €50 billion from January to August 2025, including military, financial and humanitarian support. On the other hand, the United States had committed over €100 billion in government aid under the Biden administration (2022-2024). But as Statista's Tristan Gaudiat shows in the chart

How Resilient Is BRICS In The Storm Of Geopolitics? Authored by Peter Hanseler / René Zittlau via ForumGeopolitica.com, BRICS is a huge power factor whose members, partners, and candidates are currently undergoing a severe test. Today, we look to the future. INTRODUCTION In the first part of this series, we looked at the facts about BRICS and the major economic trends that can currently be observed. The second part dealt with the environment in which BRICS must develop as the most important organization of the Global South. We assessed the warlike circumstances in general, the great danger that would arise from a nuclear war, and the unpredictability of the

The Key To Understanding The Cult Of Globalism's War On The West Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.us The culture war in the western world is currently hitting a crescendo. At first the media said it was all “conspiracy theory” being amplified by a “fringe minority” of radical right wingers. Then, they admitted the conflict was real but claimed that conservatives were monsters trying to “dismantle democracy”. Today, the culture war has become the dominant issue of our age with the debate echoing through the halls of the White House. Leftists hoped they could make it all go away by dismissing it. They

Over 20,000 Pounds Of Cocaine Seized By US Coast Guard More than 20,000 pounds of cocaine were seized by the crew of USCGC Cutter Munro, the “largest at-sea interdiction in 18+ years,” the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) said in a Dec. 5 post on X. “Through #OperationPacificViper, @USCG has accelerated counter-narcotics operations across the Eastern Pacific and delivered historic results in the fight against narco-terrorists,” the post stated. “Our maritime fighting force is leading America’s drug interdiction operations, protecting the Homeland, and keeping deadly drugs out of American communities.” The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a Dec. 5 post on X that

AI Illiteracy Authored by Mark Bauerlein via The Epoch Times, In the old days, English class meant two things: one, reading Shakespeare, Tennyson et al., and two, learning to write. The classics plus grammar and punctuation—they made English a serious subject respected for its content and skills. Of course, it’s not like that any longer. The traditional literary canon is ever less central to the field, which now spends lots of time on “media literacy,” critical thinking, “informational texts,” and other topics unrelated to literary history. Those changes have come about from above, we should note, from experts in curriculum and assessment. As for

Juan Orlando Hernández thanked the Lord for being ‘a free man’ and then Trump for ‘changing my life’ Former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernández recently thanked God and Donald Trump – in that order – for being pardoned by the latter of a drug trafficking conviction won by federal US prosecutors less than two years earlier. Speaking in a video posted to social media and referring to the US president, Hernández eventually said Trump “changed my life, and I’ll never forget that”. But first he praised God, saying in Spanish, “You saw the injustice and suffering, and in your infinite mercy you

Brazil aide says Trump’s closure of Venezuelan airspace amounts to an ‘act of war’ that could escalate * Maduro says the real reason for Trump’s Venezuela fixation is oil – is he right? A US invasion or attack on Venezuela could plunge South America into a Vietnam-style conflict, the chief foreign policy adviser to Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has warned. In an interview with the Guardian, Celso Amorim called Donald Trump’s recent decision to order the closure of Venezuelan airspace “an act of war”, and voiced fears the crisis could intensify over the coming weeks. Continue reading...

Although people reported ‘things falling off shelves and walls’, no injuries or structural damage were reported A powerful, magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck a remote area near the border between Alaska and the Canadian territory of Yukon on Saturday. There was no tsunami warning, and officials said there were no immediate reports of damage or injury. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck about 230 miles (370km) north-west of Juneau, Alaska, and 155 miles west of Whitehorse, Yukon. Continue reading...

The South American country facing a huge US military buildup has almost a fifth of known global reserves * Visual guide to US military presence in the Caribbean Venezuela’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, says the real motive behind the massive US military buildup in the Caribbean is oil: his country has the largest proven reserves in the world. The US state department denies this, insisting that the airstrikes on boats that have killed more than 80 people and the vast military deployment off South America are part of a campaign against drug trafficking. Continue reading...

Footage seen by US senators shows two unarmed, shirtless men struggling to stay afloat before they were killed, sources say * Experts say Trump’s ‘drug boat’ war is legally shaky Two men who survived a US airstrike on a suspected drug smuggling boat in the Caribbean clung to the wreckage for an hour before they were killed in a second attack, according to a video of the episode shown to senators in Washington. The men were shirtless, unarmed and carried no visible radio or other communications equipment. They also appeared to have no idea what had just hit them, or that the

Tsunami as high as 3 metres could hit after powerful tremor 50 miles off country’s north-east coast A powerful magnitude 7.6 earthquake has shaken Japan, prompting tsunami warnings and orders for residents to evacuate. A tsunami as high as 3 metres (10ft) could hit the country’s north-eastern coast after the earthquake occurred offshore at 11.15pm local time (1415 GMT), the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) said. Continue reading...

Escalation follows killing of Thai soldier and four Cambodian civilians weeks after Trump-brokered ceasefire Thailand has launched airstrikes along its disputed border with Cambodia after both countries accused each other of breaching a ceasefire deal brokered by Donald Trump. Four Cambodian civilians and at least one Thai soldier have been killed in the renewed clashes, which have forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes. Continue reading...

* Yang extorted £153,000 from former Spurs player * Co-conspirator receives two-year sentence in Seoul court A woman has been sentenced in Seoul to four years in prison for blackmailing South Korean football star Son Heung-min. The woman, identified only as Yang, was charged with extorting 300 million won (£153,000) from Son in 2024 after sending him an ultrasound photo of a baby that she claimed was his and demanding money to stay silent. Continue reading...

Sunday’s ‘patriots only’ Legislative Council elections took place in the shadow of the Tai Po fire that killed at least 159 people Turnout for Hong Kong’s “patriots only” Legislative Council elections on Sunday was at a near-record low, with fewer than 32% of voters casting ballots, as the number of registered voters fell for the fourth consecutive year. At 31.9%, Sunday’s turnout is marginally higher than 2021’s record low of 30.2%. But fewer people overall voted this year: 1.3 million compared to 1.4 million in 2021. Hong Kong’s population is about 7.5 million. Continue reading...

China’s ambassador summoned over alleged weekend incident that saw Chinese J-15 fighter aircraft twice train their radar on Japanese F-15s The diplomatic dispute between Japan and China appeared to deepen over the weekend after Chinese military planes were accused of locking their radar on to Japanese fighter jets near the Okinawa islands. Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, vowed to “respond calmly and resolutely” to the alleged incident, saying her country would take all possible measures to strengthen maritime and airspace surveillance and closely monitor Chinese military activities. The country’s foreign ministry also summoned China’s ambassador on Sunday. China’s government has roundly rejected

As Bulahdelah mourns dead firefighter, residents recall lucky escapes and fire chief warns the danger is ‘not contained’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast When Garry Morgan arrived home on Friday afternoon, his rural mid-north coast property was surrounded by a “big plume of smoke”. Less than twenty-four hours later, two houses on his street would be lost, and its surrounding forest would be reduced to blackened skeletal remains. Morgan’s township of Bulahdelah, around 235km north of Sydney, has become at the centre of a tragedy after a veteran firefighter died on Sunday evening when he was struck

Blazes in NSW and Tasmania have already led to a firefighter losing his life and close to 40 homes being destroyed as an ominous fire season begins Australians should “expect the unexpected” this bushfire season amid dangerous conditions, experts have warned, after a severe start that saw a firefighter killed and homes destroyed in several states. Bushfires at Koolewong and Bulahdelah in New South Wales destroyed 20 homes and a natural disaster has been declared in several local government areas, while wind-driven fires at Dolphin Sands in eastern Tasmania razed 19 houses and damaged dozens more. Continue reading...

Leading moderate Maria Kovacic, who is up for re-election in 2028, warns against following far-right party as Coalition grapples with internal ructions * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast A Coalition senator says the Liberals must not become “One Nation lite” to combat the threat of Pauline Hanson’s party, which has been bolstered by Barnaby Joyce’s defection from the Nationals. The New South Wales senator and leading moderate Maria Kovacic has conceded Joyce’s decision to join One Nation to lead its Senate ticket in the state made it “much more challenging” for the Liberals to retain all

NSW premier says parkland and sports grounds will support more than 7,000 new homes in Blackwattle Bay area, as racing industry concedes ‘the world has moved on’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast The NSW Labor government has unveiled plans to redevelop Wentworth Park, the home of greyhound racing in Sydney, into community sporting grounds and a park, amid a renewed focus on animal welfare concerns in the racing industry. The premier, Chris Minns, announced that a 14-hectare area just 1.5km west of the CBD, including the greyhound racetrack, will be turned into new community open

Tell us about your experience of the social media ban for under-16s in Australia and how it is affecting you or your children * Australia social media ban: when does it start, how will it work and what apps are being banned for under-16s? Australia formally introduces a ban on under-16s accessing social media on Wednesday 10 December, but platforms have already started prompting users for age verification. We would like to hear from you – how have you been affected by the social media ban? Have there been any issues with your child’s account deactivation, or has an account you have

Ukrainian leader met with Starmer, Macron and Merz in UK after US-Ukraine talks in Florida failed to achieve a breakthrough * See all our Ukraine war coverage Meanwhile, we are starting to look towards 10 Downing Street as the leaders should start arriving in the next hour. Last preparations are under way, and we have a live stream for you at the top of the page. In the last few minutes, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has just landed in the UK, Sky News has reported. Continue reading...

The new US national security strategy codifies a seismic shift in transatlantic relations, say experts The president of the European Council of national leaders, António Costa, has warned Donald Trump’s administration against interfering in Europe’s affairs, as analysts said the US national security strategy represented a seismic shift in transatlantic relations. Released on Friday, the document claims Europe faces “civilisational erasure” because of migration and warns that a censorious EU “undermines political liberty and sovereignty”. It says the US will “cultivate resistance” in the bloc to “correct its current trajectory”. Analysts said the document confirmed not just the Trump administration’s hostility to

As Keir Starmer hosts Volodymyr Zelenskyy in London, Pippa Crerar and Kiran Stacey discuss what the ‘coalition of the willing’ can achieve. Also in the spotlight is Labour’s shifting position on the EU. Plus, with pressure mounting on Nigel Farage, can the Reform UK leader handle so much scrutiny? Continue reading...

Forecasters say flooding and travel disruption possible amid warnings for Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and western England Storm Bram will lead to strong winds and heavy rain in the UK later on Monday and throughout Tuesday, forecasters have warned. Named by Met Éireann, Ireland’s equivalent of the Met Office, Storm Bram will move north and to the west of the UK on Monday, bringing heavy rain and winds to parts of the country. Continue reading...

Ukraine president’s UK visit comes amid heavy pressure from Washington for Kyiv to cede territory to Moscow * Russia-Ukraine war – latest news updates Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting the leaders of the UK, France and Germany in London on Monday amid heavy pressure on Ukraine from the Trump administration to cede territory it currently holds in efforts to reach a quick conclusion to the war. The talks in London follow several days of negotiations between US and Ukrainian officials, which ended on Saturday without an apparent breakthrough and were characterised by the Ukrainian president as “constructive, although not easy”. Continue reading...

Sanctions, instability and external meddling are still problems for Ahmed al-Sharaa, one year after Assad’s fall * Ddivided Syria struggles to escape cycle of violence * The fall of the house of Assad – in pictures If ubiquity and handshakes were the only measures of success, Ahmed al-Sharaa would be diplomat of the year. Since he formally became president of Syria on 29 January 2025, the former leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham – a jihadist group with an al-Qaida lineage – has made a total of 21 public international trips to 13 countries. These include a visit to the UN general assembly,

While country’s return to global stage has filled many Syrians with pride, domestically old grievances threaten efforts to rebuild the state * Anniversary of the fall of house of Assad in Syria – in pictures Lying in bed recovering after his latest surgery, Ayman Ali retells the story of Syria’s revolution through his wounds. His right eye, lost in an attack on a rebel observation post he was manning in 2012, is covered by yellow medical tape. Propped against the wall is a cane he uses to walk, after a rocket attack in 2014 left him with a limp. For 14 years,

Concerns over recording of meetings at coordination centre excluding Palestinians that was set up to provide support for Trump’s Gaza plan Israeli operatives are conducting widespread surveillance of US forces and allies stationed at a new US base in the country’s south, according to sources briefed on disputes about open and covert recordings of meetings and discussions. The scale of intelligence gathering at the Civil-Military Coordination Center (CMCC) prompted the US commander of the base, Lt Gen Patrick Frank, to summon an Israeli counterpart for a meeting to tell him that “recording has to stop here”. Continue reading...

STC troops now control all eight governorates, a major setback for Emirates’ regional rival Saudi Arabia The United Arab Emirates-backed military leadership in South Yemen has seized power across the whole of the south of the country, a move that opens up the possibility that the South will declare independence and revert Yemen to being two states for the first time since 1990. As many as 10,000 troops from the Southern Transitional Council (STC) poured into the oil-rich Hadramaut governorate last week and later into Marah, the less-populated governorate bordering Oman, which had not previously been under its control. Continue reading...

Ankara’s foreign minister suggests international partners should start by separating Israeli troops from Hamas The international stabilisation force (ISF) in Gaza should make its priority the separation of Israeli troops and Hamas rather than the disarmament of the Palestinian group, the Turkish foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, has said. He also suggested that Indonesia and Azerbaijan, two countries that have offered to contribute troops, would prefer that Turkey was a member of the planned UN-backed force, something Israel is seeking to veto. Continue reading...

Officials say the Birch nightclub had contravened multiple safety regulations and that the basement had no fire safety exit Four members of the same family on their first holiday to Goa were among the 25 killed in a deadly fire at a nightclub in the popular Indian tourist state on Saturday night. The massive blaze broke out at just before midnight at Birch by Romeo Lane, a buzzing bar, restaurant and nightclub in north Goa’s Aporna district. Continue reading...

Fire broke out at midnight in Arpora with victims mostly kitchen workers, according to state’s chief minister At least 25 people have been killed in a fire at a nightclub in Goa, an Indian state popular for its nightlife and tourism. Several tourists were among the 25 dead in the fire, which broke out at about midnight at Birch by Romeo Lane, a popular restaurant, cocktail bar and club in Arpora, a district of north Goa. Continue reading...

This blog is now closed, you can read more on this story here Russia and India will reshape their defence ties to take account of New Delhi’s push for self-reliance, the two countries said in a joint statement after a summit between president Putin and Indian prime minister Narendra Modi. “In response to India’s aspirations for self-reliance, the partnership is currently being reoriented toward joint research and development, as well as the production of advanced defence platforms,” the statement said. Continue reading...

Narendra Modi says energy security is ‘pillar of the India-Russia partnership’ as two leaders meet in Delhi Vladimir Putin has told the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, that Russia is ready to continue “uninterrupted” shipments of oil to India, signalling a defiant stance to the US as the two leaders met in Delhi and affirmed that their ties were “resilient to external pressure”. The statement, made on Friday after the annual India-Russia summit, appeared to be directed at western countries – particularly the US – that have attempted to pressure New Delhi into scaling back its ties to Moscow. Continue reading...

Delhi visit gives Russian leader a chance to reduce Moscow’s isolation but both countries need each other to negotiate Trump’s US and a powerful China When Vladimir Putin last set foot in India almost exactly four years ago, the world order looked materially different. At that visit – lasting just five hours due to the Covid pandemic – Putin and the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, discussed economic and military cooperation and reaffirmed their special relationship. Three months later, Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine would turn him into a global pariah, isolating the Kremlin from the world and restricting Putin’s international travel. Continue

Sandie Peggie wins harassment claim but tribunal dismisses allegations of discrimination and victimisation A nurse who complained about sharing a women’s changing room with a transgender doctor has won part of her employment tribunal against NHS Fife but her claim against the doctor in question was dismissed. The judgment, published on Monday, was immediately attacked by gender critical campaigners as “disappointing” and for failing to provide employers with clarity on the practical application of April’s supreme court ruling on biological sex. Continue reading...

US national security strategy takes aim at EU and other bodies over issues including migration, free speech and falling birthrates Badenoch is now taking questions. Q: [From Sky News] You said you did not want to leave any stones unturned. That is what Sajid Javid said when he ordered an inquiry into this in 2018. The found that most perpetrators were white. Are you saying that was a whitewash? -Investigate the prevalence and nature of organised grooming networks, with a focus on extra-familial abuse. -Consider whether offenders display shared religious, ethnic, national, family, or clan characteristics. Continue reading...

Artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, pleads guilty at Old Bailey to causing death of Yubin Tamang, 20, in hit-and-run The rapper Ghetts pleaded guilty to causing the death of a student in a hit-and-run while driving dangerously. The award-winning artist, whose real name is Justin Clarke-Samuel, appeared at the Old Bailey in London by video link from Pentonville prison and admitted causing the death of 20-year-old Yubin Tamang on 18 October. Continue reading...

Party denies councillor’s claim it falsely reported expenses during Farage’s run to become Clacton MP last year * UK politics live – latest updates Police are looking into allegations Reform UK breached electoral law during its campaign to win Nigel Farage’s Commons seat at last year’s general election. Political opponents have urged the party’s leader to “come clean” over a former aide’s claims that Reform falsely reported election expenses in the Clacton constituency he represents after his 2024 electoral win. Continue reading...

Bank under budget pressures as it responds to former Fed chair’s report into failure to forecast surging inflation * Business live – latest updates The Bank of England has said it is cutting jobs amid sweeping changes at Threadneedle Street after a highly critical review into its failure to forecast surging inflation. Under budget pressures as it responded to the report from the former US Federal Reserve chair Ben Bernanke, the Bank has opened a voluntary scheme last week as part of an efficiency drive to find savings. Continue reading...

Trump administration argues that 90-year precedent that stops presidents from removing officers ‘must be overruled’ In a statement, Pamela Smith said she was “deeply humbled, grateful and deeply appreciative” of her time in her role, which she described as the “greatest honor” of her career. She gave thanks to the mayor for appointing her in 2023 and supporting her throughout her tenure, which she acknowledged had been both “challenging and rewarding”. Smith adds that “tremendous progress” has been made but the city is not at “zero percent crime” yet. I am confident that the department is in a strong position and that the

Justice department appealed lower court’s decision that Trump exceeded his authority when he moved to dismiss Rebecca Slaughter * US politics live – latest updates The US supreme court is hearing arguments on Monday concerning the legality of Donald Trump’s firing of a Federal Trade Commission member in a major test of presidential power, with a justice department lawyer asking the justices to overrule a 90-year-old legal precedent. The justice department has appealed a lower court’s decision that the Republican president exceeded his authority when he moved to dismiss Rebecca Slaughter, the Democratic FTC member, in March before her term was set

Civil rights leaders decry administration’s move to downplay Black American history and promote president The US’s National Park Service (NPS) will offer free admission to US residents on Donald Trump’s birthday in 2026 – which also happens to be Flag Day – but is eliminating the benefit for Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth. The new list of free admission days for Americans is the latest example of the Trump administration downplaying America’s civil rights history while also promoting the president’s image, name and legacy. Continue reading...

US president’s efforts under harsh spotlight as Rwanda-DRC deal and Thailand-Cambodia mediations waver For the sake of anyone confused by Donald Trump’s apparently supernatural abilities as a global peacemaker – for which he was given the inaugural (and perhaps only) Fifa “peace prize” – current events have intervened to offer some clarification. Trump has claimed a number of dubious diplomatic successes on the international peace front, among them a freshly signed deal between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, mediating in Thailand and Cambodia’s deadly border dispute, and the Gaza “ceasefire”. Continue reading...

Pamela Smith, first Black woman to lead the department, quits amid battle with Trump over control of police * US politics – live updates Washington’s police chief, Pamela Smith, is resigning after less than two years in the role amid an ongoing battle over control of the city’s law enforcement as Donald Trump moved to federalize the Metropolitan police department. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced Smith’s departure on Monday, praising her leadership during a period of “significant urgency” for the nation’s capital. Continue reading...

Syrians marked the first anniversary of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and his iron-fisted rule on Monday, as the fractured nation struggles to find stability and recover after years of war. Official celebrations are planned for the central Umayyad Square in Damascus, which has been packed with jubilant gatherings ahead of December 8, and in other parts of the country. Military parades are also expected. Assad fled Syria for Russia a year ago as rebels commanded by Syria’s new president, Ahmed...

US President Donald Trump’s new global security road map has dropped any reference to denuclearising North Korea as a goal, fuelling speculation that Washington may be angling to boost the chances of a diplomatic breakthrough with Pyongyang in 2026. The target of ending North Korea’s nuclear threat had been a constant in the National Security Strategy of every US president since the emergence of Pyongyang’s programme in 2003, but was conspicuously absent in Friday’s document. The omission of any...

Spain’s ambitious multi-billion-euro plan to become Europe’s leading player in the electric vehicle market presents a golden opportunity for Chinese car brands, which could be vital to the strategy’s success, according to analysts. The Spain Auto 2030 Plan, presented by Madrid on Wednesday, seeks to mobilise government funding to provide consumer subsidies, support the construction of charging stations and help the Spanish car industry – which drives about 10 per cent of the country’s economic...

The United Nations on Monday hit out at global “apathy” over widespread suffering as it launched its 2026 appeal for humanitarian assistance, which was limited in scope as aid operations confront major funding cuts. “This is a time of brutality, impunity and indifference,” UN humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher told reporters, condemning “the ferocity and the intensity of the killing, the complete disregard for international law, horrific levels of sexual violence” he had seen on the ground in...

As Britain’s Defence Secretary John Healey talks up his plans to buttress the UK military, doubts over funding and the country’s ability to move fast enough are unsettling the industry and armed forces. Healey in June laid out a 130-page defence review, billing it as the first in a generation that would transform and grow the UK military. He set out plans to rebuild arms stockpiles, expand Britain’s nuclear deterrent and submarine fleet, and invest more heavily in long-range weapons and advanced...

We have put together stories from our coverage last weekend to help you stay informed about news across Asia and beyond. If you would like to see more of our reporting, please consider subscribing. 1. Hong Kong Legco election’s 31.9% turnout surpasses record low of 2021 2. Tokyo accuses Chinese fighters of locking on Japanese jets northeast of Taiwan 3. Chinese scientists develop promising stem cell therapy for Parkinson’s 4. The great slowdown: Germany at a standstill as ‘China shock’...

US President Donald Trump solidified his takeover of Washington’s John F. Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts on Sunday by hosting its flagship awards programme, mixing politics with a celebration of stars from music and film. This year’s Kennedy Centre Honours, widely seen as the top US recognition for lifetime achievement in the performing arts, feted actor Sylvester Stallone, disco singer Gloria Gaynor, country musician George Strait, Phantom of the Opera star Michael Crawford and rock...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani posted a video to social media on Sunday explaining immigrants’ right to refuse to speak to or comply with agents from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), days after federal agents carried out a raid in Manhattan. In the video, Mamdani vowed to protect the city’s 3 million immigrants, saying, “We can all stand up to ICE if you know your rights.” He explained that people in the US can choose not to speak to federal immigration agents, film them...

Brazilian Senator Flavio Bolsonaro said on Sunday he could abandon his presidential aspirations for a “price”, and suggested amnesty be granted to his father, the imprisoned far-right former leader Jair Bolsonaro. The ex-president’s eldest son announced on Friday that his father, who is serving a 27-year sentence for plotting a coup and is banned from public office, has chosen him to lead the country’s powerful conservative movement, shaking up the 2026 election race. But suddenly Flavio...

Nigerian authorities have secured the release of 100 kidnapped schoolchildren taken by gunmen from a Catholic school last month, a UN source and local media said on Sunday, though the fate of the 165 students and staff thought to remain in captivity remained unclear. In late November, 315 students and staff were kidnapped from St Mary’s co-educational boarding school in north-central Niger state, as the country buckled under a wave of mass abductions reminiscent of the infamous 2014 Boko Haram...

When President Xi Jinping hosted his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit in Tianjin earlier this year, the choreography was familiar: smiles, handshakes and talk of a “multipolar world order”. Yet beneath the symbolism lies an imbalance impossible to miss. China radiated the poise of a civilisation sure of its trajectory; Russia exuded the defiance of a power seeking reassurance. The meeting, intended to display Eurasian unity, instead...

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, a major figure in implementing US President Donald Trump’s economic agenda including tariffs, disclosed on Sunday that he has recently divested his interests in a soybean farm to comply with the ethics agreement he signed last January when he joined the administration. The divestiture comes four months after the US Office of Government Ethics informed the Senate Finance Committee in an August 11 letter that Bessent had failed to comply with certain terms of...

A water leak last month damaged hundreds of books in the Egyptian antiquities department at the Louvre, underscoring the deteriorating state of the world’s most visited museum just weeks after a daring jewel heist exposed security flaws. Specialist website La Tribune de l’Art reported that around 400 rare books were affected, blaming poor pipe conditions. It said the department had long sought funds to protect the collection from such risks without success. Le Louvre’s deputy administrator,...

The UK will “turn the tide” on illicit finance at a landmark anti-corruption summit in London next year, the foreign secretary has said. Yvette Cooper confirmed on Sunday that Britain would host the summit at Lancaster House on June 23-24, 2026. The summit, first promised by her predecessor David Lammy, will bring together governments, businesses and campaigners to agree “tough international action” to combat corrupt practices. Cooper said the summit would target illicit gold used to fund the...

Celebrated British documentary photographer Martin Parr has died at his home in the western English city of Bristol, his foundation announced on Sunday. He was 73. Famous for his kitschy, colour-saturated images, Parr had a sharp eye for mundane oddities, typified in his humorous snapshots of bronzed beachgoers and selfie-snapping holidaymakers. “It is with great sadness that we announce that Martin Parr (1952-2025) died yesterday at home in Bristol,” a statement on The Martin Parr Foundation’s...

UK police were probing on Sunday an assault involving pepper spray at a Heathrow Airport car park that disrupted travel and left 21 people, including a three-year-old girl, needing medical treatment. In a departure from an earlier account of the incident at Terminal 3’s multi-storey car park, London’s Metropolitan Police said it now appeared to have stemmed from a suitcase robbery by people known to each other. Commander Peter Stevens, who had previously characterised it as an argument that...

US ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz and European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas were both visiting Jordan on Sunday to discuss humanitarian aid for Gaza. Their visits came as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he expected the second phase of the US-sponsored ceasefire plan for the Palestinian territory to begin soon. Waltz said on social media that he was in the Jordanian capital Amman to discuss speeding up the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and “to see the...

Benin’s president said the “situation is completely under control” in his country after the government thwarted an attempted coup thanks to loyalist soldiers with support from Nigerian forces. A group of soldiers announced earlier in the day on state television that they had ousted President Patrice Talon. That sparked a swift response from loyal army forces, joined by air strikes and troop deployments from neighbouring Nigeria. Beninese military and security sources said that around a dozen...

Chinese cross-border e-commerce entrepreneur Andy Guo has just opened two warehouses covering a total of 5,000 square metres (53,820 sq ft) on the outskirts of Moscow. He said the move was not about addressing logistical bottlenecks, but preparing his business for a potential geopolitical shift that could reshape his fastest-growing yet most uncertain overseas market if Russia and Ukraine reach a peace deal. US President Donald Trump has continued to push for the end of hostilities between...

Ground has quite literally been broken on a Chinese-funded project to modernise the Tanzania-Zambia railway after years of negotiations, amid intensifying “corridor wars” as major powers compete to shape transport and trade networks across not just Africa but also Eurasia and beyond. The US$1.4 billion upgrade will restore the 1,860km railway, known as Tazara, a vital corridor linking Zambia’s Copperbelt to the Indian Ocean via Tanzania’s Dar es Salaam port, connecting southern and eastern...

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth doubled down on deadly US air strikes against alleged drug-running boats off the Venezuelan coast, saying he would have made the same call as the admiral who ordered survivors to be killed. The nearly two dozen strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific have come under bipartisan scrutiny, but recent reports that a September strike included a second one to kill two survivors clinging to wreckage at sea have prompted accusations of possible war crimes. “From what...

A US$140 million fine on tech tycoon Elon Musk’s social media platform underscores how Europeans undermine US policies even while demanding that the United States provide military protection, one of the top American diplomats wrote on Saturday. US Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau joined Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other American officials in criticising the European Union’s fine on Musk-owned X as censorship. But Landau went further than Rubio by invoking broader ideological...

The fireworks between Katy Perry and Justin Trudeau are now Instagram official, following months of speculation and steamy sightings. The 41-year-old pop star, who recently ended her engagement to Orlando Bloom, shared a selfie on Saturday with the former Canadian prime minister, showing them cuddled up beneath the fall foliage in Japan. “Tokyo times on tour and more,” wrote Perry, who performed just outside the country’s capital on Wednesday as part of the Asian leg of her Lifetimes Tour. The...

A drone attack by the Sudanese paramilitary forces hit a kindergarten in south-central Sudan, killing 50 people, including 33 children, a doctors’ group said. Paramedics on the scene in the town of Kalogi in South Kordofan state were targeted in “a second unexpected attack”, Sudan Doctors’ Network said in a statement late on Friday. Emergency Lawyers, a rights group tracking violence against civilians in Sudan reported in a statement on Saturday the second strike on paramedics treating survivors...

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban announced on Saturday that he was sending a business delegation to Russia in the coming days in preparation for the end of the Ukraine war. Orban addressed Budapest’s foreign relations with Moscow and also Washington at an exclusive rally in the central city of Kecskemet, ahead of legislative elections in the spring. The delegation’s mission would focus on economic cooperation, particularly in a post-war landscape that could see Russia not cut out from the...

Cop30 concluded with confident declarations from global fashion brands: upgraded net-zero road maps, new partnerships under the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action and bold promises to “accelerate supply-chain decarbonisation”. However, the summit revealed something the industry continues to avoid. Fashion’s climate ambition is still being shaped in the West, while the responsibility for delivering it falls almost entirely on Asia. This imbalance has not shifted. Instead, the UN...

For the first time in a decade, hunters armed with rifles and crossbows are fanning out across Florida’s swamps and flatwoods to legally hunt the Florida black bear, over the vocal opposition of critics. The state-sanctioned hunt began on Saturday, after drawing more than 160,000 applications for a far more limited number of hunting permits, including from opponents who are trying to reduce the number of bears killed in this year’s hunt, the state’s first since 2015. The Florida Fish and...

President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday that he and his negotiators who are discussing a US-led plan for Ukraine had a “very substantive and constructive” call with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. “Ukraine is committed to continuing to work honestly with the American side to bring about real peace,” Zelensky said on Telegram as the third day of the talks were to be held in Florida. “We agreed on the next steps and the format of the talks with America,” he added. Zelensky, who...

A mass shooting carried out on Saturday by multiple suspects in an unlicensed bar near the South African capital left at least 11 people dead, police said. The victims included three children aged three, 12 and 16. Another 14 people were wounded and taken to hospital, according to a statement from the South African Police Service. Police did not give details on the ages of those who were injured or their conditions. The shooting happened at a bar inside a hostel in the Saulsville township west...

Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado has vowed to go to Norway to pick up her Nobel Peace Prize, defying a warning from Caracas that she would be a fugitive if she did so. The head of the Nobel Institute, Kristian Berg Harpviken, on Saturday said that Machado – who lives in hiding in her country – promised him she would make the ceremony, set to take place in Oslo on Wednesday. “I was in contact with Machado last night [Friday] and she confirms that she will be in Oslo for the...

Four protesters have been arrested after custard and apple crumble was thrown at a display case containing the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London. Take Back Power, which describes itself as a new non-violent civil-resistance group, claimed it was behind the act. Footage shared by the group showed one demonstrator removing the large foil tray of crumble from a bag and then slamming it against the glass protecting the Imperial State Crown. Another then repeatedly poured a tub of bright yellow...

The nearly two-month-old ceasefire in the Gaza Strip will not be complete until Israeli troops withdraw from the Palestinian territory under a peace plan backed by Washington and the United Nations, mediator Qatar’s prime minister has said. “Now we are at the critical moment ... A ceasefire cannot be completed unless there is a full withdrawal of the Israeli forces, [and] there is stability back in Gaza,” Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said on Saturday. Sheikh...

An overnight exchange of gunfire and shelling at a major Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing killed four civilians and one soldier, Afghan officials said on Saturday, the latest flare-up of fighting between the two countries despite a ceasefire since deadly clashes in October. Five other civilians were wounded, an Afghan government spokesman, Hamdullah Fitrat, said in a video statement. The local hospital at the Pakistani border town of Chaman said three people suffered minor injuries during...

When Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago, a 26-year-old soldier known as Monka did not see a combat role she could do. But that changed as technology reshaped the battlefield and opened new paths. Last year, she joined the military as a pilot of short-range, first-person view, or FPV, drones after giving up a job managing a restaurant abroad and returning home to Ukraine to serve. Her shift is part of a larger trend of more women joining Ukraine’s military in combat roles, a...

Stock prices are nervously high, bond and real estate prices are under downward pressure, cryptocurrency assets have sustained falls and global debt is at record levels. One common factor behind these coinciding and worrying trends is that much of the world is living on excess credit. Payment is now due. Another is how markets have bloated as financial systems fail to properly channel savings into good investments. This all suggests the coming correction in financial markets will be more...

Newly released surveillance footage from the US hotel where American actress Tara Reid claims she was drugged last month shows the actress downing more drinks than she recalls. Reid, 50, maintains she was drugged on November 23 at the DoubleTree Hotel by the Chicago O’Hare Airport, insisting she had just one drink before being wheeled out on a stretcher and taken to the hospital. Hotel security video, published by TMZ on Friday, shows a bartender bringing a glass of liquid to the American Pie...

The French military used jammers as several suspected drones flew over a closely guarded base housing nuclear ballistic submarines, prosecutors said on Friday. It was the latest in a series of mysterious drone flights over airports and sensitive military and industrial sites across Europe. Three-and-a-half years into Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, there is growing concern that such disruption could be part of hybrid war tactics by Moscow against the European Union, which has backed Kyiv. No...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday at an annual summit and agreed to diversify mutual economic ties, as the United States presses India to revise its decades-old partnership with Russia. The 23rd Russia-India Summit comes at a pivotal moment as the US pushes for a Ukraine peace deal while seeking global cooperation. It will test New Delhi’s efforts to balance relations with Moscow and Washington as the nearly four-year war in Ukraine...

A young man from Australia with a huge social media following has given an 88-year-old US supermarket worker the gift of retirement. Ed Bambas from Michigan was presented with an oversized cheque for US$1.7 million on Friday – the result of an extraordinary online fundraising drive. “No, no,” Bambas said, wiping away tears in front of reporters. “Thank you. Oh, my God.” Sam Weidenhofer, 22, from Melbourne, is using his online influence to spread kindness – and financial support – during a visit...

Jeff Rowe grinned with satisfaction when the dashboard of his John Deere combine harvester showed the yield of the first run on his family’s farm during this year’s harvest: 253 bushels per acre, equivalent to 13.8 tonnes of corn per hectare. The yield on the 100-acre Schubert parcel was the highest in many years, said Rowe, the CEO of Syngenta Group and the son of the owners of Rowe Farm, Dean and Carol. Located in the corn belt of Illinois state in the US Midwest, the farm used Syngenta’s...

A protective shield at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in war-torn Ukraine, built to contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, can no longer perform its main safety function due to drone damage, the UN nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a strike Ukraine has attributed to Russia. The International Atomic Energy Agency said an inspection last week of the steel confinement structure completed in 2019 found the drone impact in February, three years into Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, had...

As sure as night follows day, you can always count on the big Western media outlets to politicise anything bad that happens in Hong Kong or on the mainland. So with the horrific Tai Po fire, you can be sure those platforms will go to town with that approach. The real cause of the fatal fire? Well, of course, it’s all about democracy and freedom, or rather the lack of their Western versions in China. The same old “democracy” explains everything, which turns every ignorant foreign commentator into...

US President Donald Trump met with the leaders of Mexico and Canada to discuss trade issues on Friday after the leaders hosted the 2026 World Cup draw at Washington’s storied Kennedy Centre. The White House said Trump held talks with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum after the star-studded event, but gave no details on their discussions. Canadian media said the meeting lasted for 45 minutes and the leaders spoke on their own, with no staff present. Trump...

The US Supreme Court agreed on Friday to decide the legality of US President Donald Trump’s directive to restrict birthright citizenship in the United States, a contentious part of his efforts to curb immigration and a step that would alter how a 19th-century constitutional provision has long been understood. The justices took up a Justice Department appeal of a lower court’s ruling that blocked Trump’s executive order telling US agencies not to recognise the citizenship of children born in the...

For much of the modern era, power was easy to recognise. It belonged to the states that could win wars decisively, enforce sanctions effectively and impose political outcomes far beyond their borders. That definition no longer works. The world is moving towards what scholars have described as a form of “distributed multipolarity”, a landscape in which no single actor – not the United States, not China, not Russia – can fully shape events in the way great powers once expected. Tools once seen as...

President Trump said the acquisition “could be a problem,” suggesting he will insert himself into the regulatory review of the transaction.

President Trump’s tariffs weren’t enough to hold back the global export flood by China, which pushed past last year’s record in just 11 months.

China’s renminbi is lagging the currencies of key trading partners, making Chinese goods and services cheap and helping to drive exports.

The chair of the central bank is dealing with internal divisions while being besieged by President Trump and front-runners jockeying to replace him.

The developer of ICEBlock, which notifies users of ICE agent sightings, said Attorney General Pam Bondi censored his free speech.

Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump was the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Washington in sharp relief.

Melania Trump went minimal, Gloria Gaynor dressed to shine, but the star of the night was the president.

A cease-fire after two years of war with Israel has allowed Hamas to tighten its grip on power again. “It’s still standing,” one Israeli official said.

A year ago, rebels overthrew President Bashar al-Assad, ending decades of dictatorship and civil war. But challenges remain for the new leadership.

The country certainly still faces many challenges. But some things are now going right there — and those are worth our attention, too.

Each side accused the other of firing first. The hostilities came weeks after President Trump had cast himself as a peacemaker in the decades-old border dispute.

The latest violence comes months after President Trump helped mediate a cease-fire between the two nations.

Poland has charged a little-known Russian opposition figure with espionage and participating in a bomb plot. His friends are perplexed.

New York City train operators witness more people being struck by trains than drivers in any other American system. Afterward, many struggle to get the help they need.

The studio’s film “One Battle After Another,” and an HBO show it owns, “The White Lotus,” scored the most nominations for movies and television shows.

The movies and TV series competing for the 83rd Golden Globes. The ceremony will air on Jan. 11.

Though its stars are up for acting prizes, the film is not in the running for best musical or comedy, only for box office achievement.

Ripple effects from a federal crackdown illustrate how heavily the city’s robust dining scene depends both directly and indirectly on immigrant workers.

We examine an investigation that is testing Volodymyr Zelensky’s government.

The earthquake struck off the coast of Aomori Prefecture, on Japan’s main island, Honshu.

The departure of the senior stock picker was one of several leadership changes ahead of Mr. Buffett’s planned departure as chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway.

Democrats see their voters energized in a county that President Trump won. Republicans fear the runoff could add to recent losses.

Containers of bananas, avocados and plantains fell off a cargo ship off the Isle of Wight. A soggy fruit harvest ensued.