Robert Cuffe Head of statistics, BBC News Getty Images “Deep seated” issues must be addressed before the UK’s official statistics agency can “rebuild its reputation”, according to a highly critical government review. Repeated problems with Office for National Statistics (ONS) data, which are used to make decisions affecting millions of people, led the government to...
Getty Images The National Crime Agency (NCA) will carry out a nationwide operation to target and jail predators who have sexually exploited children as part of a grooming gang, according to the Home Office. It said the NCA would work with police forces to give victims whose cases were not progressed through the criminal justice...
Tom Bateman State Department correspondent Getty Images The road to Dover, Delaware, is lined with barns and giant wheat fields and all the other signs of American abundance. But on this journey, the scene only highlights the devastating contrast between peace and war. We’re driving here because in this rural heartland lie clues to what’s...
Trump pick Billy Long’s confirmation “signals open season for wealthy tax cheats,” said Americans for Tax Fairness. The Republican-controlled U.S. Senate voted Thursday to confirm scandal-plagued Billy Long to serve as head of the Internal Revenue Service, an agency that he sought to abolish during his tenure in Congress. Every Republican senator voted in favor...
Did the Supreme Court just execute Humphrey’s Executor? Justice Elena Kagan certainly thinks so. That could put an end to nearly a century of an extra-constitutional “independent” branch of the federal government … with one notable exception, as we’ll see. After a series of defeats over the firing of executive-branch officials in lower courts, the...
Russia was responsible for the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight, MH17, over eastern Ukraine in July 2014, the United Nations aviation agency has ruled. All 298 people on board the passenger plane were killed when it was shot down by a Russian-made missile. The Kremlin has always denied any responsibility for the air disaster....
Gaza officials have warned of famine spreading throughout the Strip, threatening the lives of millions. The UN’s food agency announced on Friday that it has run out of all food stock in Gaza after eight weeks of Israel’s humanitarian aid blockade, which has left the entire territory on the brink of — or in the...
Reuters Displaced people have been trying to seek safety after the Zamzam camp was attacked Sudanese people are eating leaves and charcoal to survive after fleeing an attack on a camp for displaced people near the city of el-Fasher, an aid agency has told the BBC. “The stories we’ve been hearing are truly horrific,” Noah...
Bernd Debusmann BBC News Reporting fromAir Force One Getty Images The Trump administration has fired Gen Timothy Haugh – the head of both the National Security Agency and US Cyber Command – the BBC’s US partner CBS has reported. It is not clear why he was removed, but it comes after a meeting between President...
With the San Francisco 49ers preparing to offer quarterback Brock Purdy a long-term contract, they have let a lot of talent go to free up salary cap space. Versatile receiver Deebo Samuel is among those to leave, being traded to the Washington Commanders, so – after losing in two of the past six Super Bowls...