The police criminal inquiry into the Post Office Horizon IT scandal is investigating more than 45 individuals, with seven formally identified as main suspects. The investigation, which the police described as unprecedented in size and scale, is the first to examine potential offences of perjury and perverting the course of justice by those who made…
Donald Trump convened congressional leaders and cabinet secretaries at the White House on Thursday to make the case for passage of his marquee tax-and-spending bill, but it remains to be seen if his pep talk will resolve a developing logjam that could threaten its passage through the Senate. The president’s intervention comes as Senate majority…
Jamaica will ask King Charles to request legal advice on the issue of slavery reparations from the judicial committee of the privy council, the final court of appeal for UK overseas territories and some Commonwealth nations. Under the Judicial Committee Act of 1833, the king, who remains Jamaica’s head of state after the country gained…
A US citizen was arrested during an immigration raid in downtown Los Angeles this week in what her family described as a “kidnapping” by federal immigration agents. Andrea Velez, 32, had just been dropped off at work by her mother and sister, the pair said, when they saw agents grab her. “My mom looked at…
US senators are receiving a classified briefing on Donald Trump’s bombing of Iranian nuclear sites, after the White House abruptly postponed the session and restricted intelligence sharing with Congress. The delayed session with senior national security officials comes after the White House moved back its originally scheduled briefing for Tuesday, fueling Democratic complaints that Trump…
Keir Starmer has offered Labour MPs “massive concessions” on his controversial welfare bill in a move that looks to have won over key rebels and may have saved the prime minister from a damaging Commons defeat next week. Leading rebels told the Guardian they had been promised significant changes to the planned cuts that could…
There are growing signs that the UK jobs markets is slowing as employers respond to higher national insurance contributions (NICs) by cutting hiring and offering weaker pay rises, the governor of the Bank of England has warned. Andrew Bailey said the combined effect of lower employment and weaker wages growth would be considered by the…
The US supreme court has paved the way for South Carolina to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program over its status as an abortion provider, a decision that could embolden red states across the country to effectively “defund” the reproductive healthcare organization. The case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, centers around a…
The €19bn Norwegian software company Visma has picked London over Amsterdam for its planned flotation next year, giving a much-needed boost to the London stock market. The company, which makes accounting, payroll and HR software products for 2.1 million customers across Northern Europe and Latin America, has yet to make a final decision but London…
The longest-serving person on Mississippi’s death row was executed Wednesday, nearly five decades after he kidnapped and killed a bank loan officer’s wife in a violent ransom scheme. Richard Gerald Jordan, a 79-year-old Vietnam veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder whose final appeals were denied without comment by the US supreme court, was sentenced to death…
