By: Tim Duy Even if inflation rises or growth perks up, the central bank seems willing to hold back. Fed Chairman Jerome Powell has the Fed leaning dovish. The Federal Reserve hasn’t yet given up on its estimate of the longer-run rate of unemployment that is consistent with stable inflation. That estimate, combined with the […] Read more
Aaron Campbell is facing a life sentence The identity of the teenage boy who raped and murdered six-year-old Alesha MacPhail has been revealed. The judge who presided over the trial has lifted a ban on naming 16-year-old Aaron Campbell. Media outlets, including the BBC, made a case for reversing the court order which had protected […] Read more
A ninth MP has quit Britain’s opposition Labour party in protest over its handling of the anti-semitism row and Jeremy Corbyn’s lurch to the ‘hard-left’. Ian Austin, MP for Dudley in the West Midlands, told party members in a series of text messages on Friday that he felt “ashamed of the Labour Party under Jeremy […] Read more
Forensic and security officials stand next to the wreckage of a bus after a suicide bomber rammed a car into the bus carrying Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel on Thursday, in Lethpora in south Kashmir’s Pulwama district, February 15, 2019 By Hamid Shalizi and Rupam Jain in Kabul Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Pakistani […] Read more
Martina Navratilova joined Athlete Ally as an ambassador in 2014 The Grand Slam winner says allowing transgender women to compete in women’s sport is “insane” and “cheating”. Tennis legend Martina Navratilova has been sacked as an ambassador for a group campaigning for LGBT sportspeople over “transphobic” comments. She wrote in The Sunday Times that it […] Read more
China has been accused of imprisoning Uighurs on a mass scale An ethnically Uighur Australian has called on his government to help “save” his wife and baby son, saying they are at risk of being detained in China. The man says he was separated from his wife, a Chinese national, in 2017 – when she […] Read more
Shamima Begum, who joined the Islamic State group in Syria aged 15, is to lose her UK citizenship. Whitehall sources said it was possible to strip the 19-year-old of British nationality as she was eligible for citizenship of another country. Her family’s lawyer, Tasnime Akunjee, said they were “disappointed” with the decision and were considering […] Read more
Donald Trump: “Put them on trial” President Trump has told the UK and other European allies to take back and put on trial more than 800 Islamic State (IS) group fighters captured in the final battle against the group. His tweet comes as US-backed Kurdish forces continue an assault on the last pocket of IS […] Read more
By Connor Sephton Sala’s coffin carried to hearse Emiliano Sala’s cousin has insisted that someone needs to take responsibility for the death of the 28-year-old Argentinian footballer, as mourners paid their final respects. Sala died in a plane crash over the English Channel last month as he travelled from Nantes to Cardiff, having joined the […] Read more
By Ariane de Vogue Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks during a naturalization ceremony at the Rotunda of the National Archives December 14, 2018 in Washington, DC. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg returned to the Supreme Court Friday to participate in the regular closed-door conference meeting among the nine justices, the court announced. This marks […] Read more
