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An arrest warrant shows unauthorized charges worth more than $1,000 were made during the time his girlfriend was missingThe boyfriend of Gabby Petito has been charged on Thursday with unauthorized use of a debit card as the search for him continued in a…

A package of bills targeting app-based companies such as Grubhub and Doordash will also set minimum payNew York City lawmakers have passed a historic package of bills to improve labor conditions for gig economy and food delivery workers.The first of its kind…

Action comes after FDA panel also approved the booster for those groupsEight Democrats and one Republican oppose bill, and two Democrats vote ‘present’Democrats reach agreement on framework to pay for reconciliation billHouse panel holds hearing on…

Charlie Appleby could target the Breeders’ Cup with Modern Games after the colt’s success at NewmarketCharlie Appleby sent out four Grade One winners in North America in the space of two days last weekend and could target another with Modern Games after…

Mark Meadows, Steve Bannon and Dan Scavino among advisers called to testify over president’s connection to 6 January eventsThe House select committee scrutinizing the Capitol attack on Thursday sent subpoenas to Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark…

Spaniards lead out Team Europe against USA in foursomesCantlay/Schauffele v McIlroy/Poulter the last of four matchesPadraig Harrington has placed faith in the Spanish duo of Jon Rahm and Sergio García to lead Europe’s defence of the Ryder Cup. Rahm and…

The building is reputed – by real estate agents – to be haunted by the presence of Bathsheba Sherman, who lived there in the 1800sA purportedly haunted Rhode Island farmhouse where the spooky happenings that inspired the 2013 horror movie The Conjuring…

Advocacy groups hail ‘huge victory’ as state becomes first in US to gather data on disproportionate harmCalifornia will become the first state in the US to track the violent deaths of LGBTQ+ people, a move that advocacy groups are hailing as a “huge…

Europe captain Pádraig Harrington sends out Rahm and García first and insists his 12 players can triumph in hostile terrainWe have not yet reached the point where the American public has grown tired of the Ryder Cup and its unsatisfactory outcomes. Europe…

American golfer accuses press of spinning his comments‘I never said Ryder Cup was negative, I said it was different’Brooks Koepka took umbrage with the golfing media’s coverage of recent comments that team sports were “just maybe not in his DNA”,…

Daniel Foote excoriates Washington in letter addressed to Antony Blinken for deporting hundreds from a border campThe US envoy to Haiti has resigned after just two months in the role, in protest at what he called the Biden administration’s “inhumane”…

Alistair Wood says today’s crises are caused by the UK selling off its most valuable assets, while Gary Nethercott asks what happened to Tory ‘market solutions’Reading your report, I find myself becoming ever more despondent at the inability of the UK to…

US-based XPO Logistics has boomed during the pandemic but its reorganisation is causing concern The pandemic has been a boon to XPO Logistics, the transport giant that delivers the goods for a global companies including retailers from Asos and Walmart. It…

As the UN food systems summit takes place on Thursday, governments can do much more, writes Michael Fakhri, UN special rapporteur on the right to food The role of the UN’s dozens of independent experts, or special rapporteurs, is to report and advise on…

The Biden administration has condemned abuses at the border – while maintaining the policies underlying these abuses. That’s beyond cynicalYou’ve probably seen a photograph haunting the internet this week: a white-presenting man on horseback –…

From 19th-century colonists to today’s super wealthy, New Zealand has been wrongly depicted as a ‘blank slate’New Zealand has become the prime destination for the world’s wealthy elite. Their relocation could be to do with the country’s famous…

Opposition from Mitch McConnell means the spending package is dead and the US faces a shutdown and defaultTop Republicans in the Senate are poised to block a key spending package advanced by Democrats in a move that could precipitate the dual fiscal crises of…

Floyd’s cousin urges Biden to do all he can to push through reform as negotiators clash on key issuesBipartisan negotiations in the US Congress over a police reform bill that was prompted by the killing of George Floyd have collapsed.“We did the best we…

US to donate 500m Pfizer doses to low- and lower-middle-income countriesDoses are in addition to the over 600m the US has committed to sendingHouse Democrats pass spending bill in party-line vote of 220 to 211McConnell pledges to oppose any effort to raise the…

Fed chair says it could raise interest rates next year, as long as the Covid crisis is containedThe Federal Reserve signaled on Wednesday that it may start cutting its enormous pandemic stimulus programs as soon as November and could raise interest rates next…

Investors worried about Chinese developer draw parallels with 2008 collapse of Lehman BrothersChina’s embattled property developer Evergrande Group has caused concern among investors worldwide. With $300bn (£220bn) owed to its creditors and key debt…

Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their Covid vaccine is safe and effective for children aged 5-11. This is overdue relief for many American womenIt was the news that parents had been waiting to hear for more than a year and a half: on Monday, Pfizer and…

The Freedom to Vote Act rivals the 1965 Voting Rights Act as the greatest expansion of ballot access in our historyImagine it’s November 2020, and you are 59-year-old Laura Roundine, living on tribal lands in Montana. Days before the election, you’re…

It’s not just anti-vaxxers. The themes of resisting power and regaining control of our lives have been cynically repurposedIt’s an uncomfortable thing to admit, but in the countercultural movements where my sympathies lie, people are dropping like flies.…

In the past few weeks more than 12,000 Haitians have arrived in Del Rio, Texas, gathering in a huge makeshift camp. Many have to cross the Rio Grande from Del Rio to Ciudad Acuña to seek food and supplies in Mexico to bring back to family members waiting in…

Willie Garson, the actor best known for his role as Stanford Blatch in the original series of Sex and the City, has died at the age of 57. Garson was most famous for his role in the HBO series Sex and the City playing Carrie Bradshaw’s closest male friend,…

The fish-out-of-water sports sitcom is about little more than a nice man being nice. Yet it has become a cultural lightning rodI have a degree in English literature, which is to say I left university with no life skills apart from the ability to be pretentious…

Economic observers should heed the warnings now – rising prices and slowing growth are a very real threatHow will the global economy and markets evolve over the next year? There are four scenarios that could follow the “mild stagflation” of the last few…

Top economic thinktank says recovery from the Covid-induced recession is not yet completeThe west’s leading economic thinktank has warned governments and central banks against an over-hasty withdrawal of support for growth amid concerns that recovery from…

The White House said US president Joe Biden will hold a call with French president Emmanuel Macron in the coming days to reaffirm America's commitment to one of its "oldest and closest partners" amid a diplomatic crisis stemming from a nuclear submarine deal.…