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Trump says he reached a 'framework of a future deal' on Greenland during a meeting with NATO's Mark Rutte in Davos.
Silver’s failure to respond as positively to rising geopolitical risk as gold this week is evidence of the trade becoming “tired” says Kevin Muir
Analysts say fintech stocks look like prime beneficiaries of a changing regulatory environment and Trump’s “affordability” initiatives.
Road safety activists ‘vindicated’ after success of campaign supported by NHS trusts and headteachersUK politics live – latest updatesThe mayor of Tower Hamlets acted unlawfully in attempting to remove three low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) schemes, the court of appeal has ruled.Road safety activists say they feel vindicated after campaigning for more than three years to keep the traffic restrictions in place in the east London neighbourhoods of Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and Columbia Road. Continue reading…
Extreme heat ‘is getting worse and whether we like it or not … there’s ultimately a limit to what we can actually physically cope with,’ scientist saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHuman-caused global heating made the intense heatwave that affected much of Australia in early January five times more likely, new analysis suggests.The heatwave earlier this month was the most severe since the 2019-20 black summer, with temperatures over 40C in Melbourne and Sydney, even hotter conditions in regional Victoria and New South Wales, and extreme heat also affecting Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. Continue reading…
The prime minister says the "hard yards" of bolstering Arctic security can begin after the US president's shift.
"Donald Trump’s TACO bell has rung once again, much to the joy of financial markets," one investor said on Thursday.
The president wants big tech to pay more for electricity, but he’s curbing renewable projects that could boost supplyDonald Trump is worried about datacenters. Specifically, he is concerned about their effects on an already expensive electricity market in the United States. Will Americans’ resentment of sharply rising energy costs scuttle his party’s November election ambitions?The US president’s anxiety is evident in two actions in recent weeks. On 13 January, Trump and Microsoft’s president jointly announced that the tech giant would pay more for its datacenters, paying full property taxes and accepting neither tax reductions nor electricity rate discounts in towns where it operates datacenters. Continue reading…
Operations continue in Minnesota and Somali communities are being targeted in MaineUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday as he returned home from school and transported him and his father to a Texas detention center, according to school officials.Liam Ramos, a preschooler, and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway, the superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, said at a press conference on Wednesday. Liam, who had recently turned five, is one of four children in the school district who have been detained by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in the region over the last two weeks, the district said. Continue reading…
Even among the wealthiest families, the issue of salary is a loaded topic, according to advisors to family offices.
Trump says he reached a 'framework of a future deal' on Greenland during a meeting with NATO's Mark Rutte in Davos.
Silver’s failure to respond as positively to rising geopolitical risk as gold this week is evidence of the trade becoming “tired” says Kevin Muir
Analysts say fintech stocks look like prime beneficiaries of a changing regulatory environment and Trump’s “affordability” initiatives.
Road safety activists ‘vindicated’ after success of campaign supported by NHS trusts and headteachersUK politics live – latest updatesThe mayor of Tower Hamlets acted unlawfully in attempting to remove three low traffic neighbourhood (LTN) schemes, the court of appeal has ruled.Road safety activists say they feel vindicated after campaigning for more than three years to keep the traffic restrictions in place in the east London neighbourhoods of Bethnal Green, Shoreditch and Columbia Road. Continue reading…
Extreme heat ‘is getting worse and whether we like it or not … there’s ultimately a limit to what we can actually physically cope with,’ scientist saysGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastHuman-caused global heating made the intense heatwave that affected much of Australia in early January five times more likely, new analysis suggests.The heatwave earlier this month was the most severe since the 2019-20 black summer, with temperatures over 40C in Melbourne and Sydney, even hotter conditions in regional Victoria and New South Wales, and extreme heat also affecting Western Australia, South Australia and Tasmania. Continue reading…
The prime minister says the "hard yards" of bolstering Arctic security can begin after the US president's shift.
"Donald Trump’s TACO bell has rung once again, much to the joy of financial markets," one investor said on Thursday.
The president wants big tech to pay more for electricity, but he’s curbing renewable projects that could boost supplyDonald Trump is worried about datacenters. Specifically, he is concerned about their effects on an already expensive electricity market in the United States. Will Americans’ resentment of sharply rising energy costs scuttle his party’s November election ambitions?The US president’s anxiety is evident in two actions in recent weeks. On 13 January, Trump and Microsoft’s president jointly announced that the tech giant would pay more for its datacenters, paying full property taxes and accepting neither tax reductions nor electricity rate discounts in towns where it operates datacenters. Continue reading…
Operations continue in Minnesota and Somali communities are being targeted in MaineUS Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained a five-year-old Minnesota boy on Tuesday as he returned home from school and transported him and his father to a Texas detention center, according to school officials.Liam Ramos, a preschooler, and his father were taken into custody while in their driveway, the superintendent of the school district in Columbia Heights, a Minneapolis suburb, said at a press conference on Wednesday. Liam, who had recently turned five, is one of four children in the school district who have been detained by federal immigration agents during the Trump administration’s enforcement surge in the region over the last two weeks, the district said. Continue reading…
Even among the wealthiest families, the issue of salary is a loaded topic, according to advisors to family offices.