The Trump administration has opened investigations into the admissions policies at Stanford University and three campuses within the University of California system, including UC Berkeley, UCLA and UC Irvine, the Department of Justice said on Thursday. US attorney general Pam Bondi has directed the department’s civil rights division to investigate whether the schools’ policies comply…
A Canadian deep-sea mining firm has revealed it has been negotiating with the Trump administration to bypass a UN treaty and potentially gain authorisation from the US to mine in international waters. The revelation has stunned environmentalists, who condemned the move as “reckless” and a “slap in the face for multilateralism”. It comes at a…
A shopper pays with a credit card at the farmer’s market in San Francisco, California, US, on Thursday, March 27, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images The deterioration in consumer sentiment was even worse than anticipated in March as worries over inflation intensified, according to a University of Michigan survey released Friday. The final…
The Federal Reserve’s key inflation measure rose more than expected in February while consumer spending also posted a smaller-than-projected increase, the Commerce Department reported Friday. The core personal consumption expenditures price index showed a 0.4% increase for the month, the biggest monthly gain since January 2024, putting the 12-month inflation rate at 2.8%. Economists surveyed…
The energy regulator for Great Britain plans to crack down on suppliers that bungle smart meter installations after millions of the devices have been left to go into “dumb” mode, where they stop automatically transmitting readings. Ofgem said households that request a smart meter should have one fitted within six weeks, and if the installation…
The former Brazil international Dani Alves has had his conviction for rape overturned on appeal. In February 2024, a court sentenced Alves to a minimum sentence of four years and six months for the rape of a 23-year-old woman in a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. As he had already spent more than a year…
The Ministry of Defence has said it is investigating after piles of papers with potentially confidential UK military information were found scattered along a street in Newcastle. The documents reportedly included army soldier ranks, emails, shift patterns and weapon-issue details. Other papers contained information that appeared to relate to an armoury and an intruder-detection system.…
King Charles smiled and waved at well-wishers as he was seen in public for the first time since it was revealed he had been in hospital over side-effects from his cancer treatment. Charles, 76, left Clarence House in London on Friday morning in a black Audi to travel to his Highgrove estate in Gloucestershire, it…
Israel has conducted an airstrike on Beirut for the first time since signing a November ceasefire with Hezbollah. Huge smoke plumes rose from the site of the attack in the southern suburb of Dahiyeh and residents reported hearing the explosion from the mountains surrounding the Lebanese capital. The strike threatens to upset the fragile truce…
A man who murdered and dismembered his friend before dumping parts of his body in public spaces across Salford and north Manchester has been sentenced to life with a minimum term of 34 years in prison. Marcin Majerkiewicz, 42, was sentenced at Manchester crown court on Friday having previously been found guilty of the murder…
