An executive representing ports where tens of thousands of workers went on strike this week made a series of critical and crude remarks about Joe Biden, tied Kamala Harris to concerns about over-taxation, and appeared to endorse a rightwing conspiracy theory. David Adam, chairman and chief executive of the United States Maritime Alliance (USMX), attacked…

Elon Musk has given tens of millions of dollars to rightwing groups in recent years, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, revealing his backing for Republican groups began earlier than was previously known. Musk endorsed Trump earlier this year and has been a prolific booster of misinformation in support of the president’s re-election bid…

Students at a private higher education college charging £9,250 a year were taught by staff reading out bullet points and showing videos, according to an investigation that found one tutor held an online class while appearing to be on public transport. The students attending Regent College London told investigators from England’s higher education regulator that…

The closure of our last coal-fired power station (End of an era as Britain’s last coal-fired power plant shuts down, 30 September) would be more impressive if we weren’t burning trees in the old Drax power station, originally built for coal. Adding insult to injury, this absurdity gets millions of pounds a year in government subsidies.…

A vulnerable woman who lay dead unnoticed in a social housing flat for more than three years wrote in her diary that she was starving and running out of food, an inquest has heard. The “mummified and almost skeletal” remains of 38-year-old Laura Winham, who was deaf and had schizophrenia, were found in her flat…