Steven McKenzie BBC Scotland Highlands and Islands reporter Getty Images Councillors have put forward the idea of a Highland control area A Highland-wide control zone to limit Airbnb-style lets has been suggested as a way of tackling a shortage of homes across the region. Councillors proposing the move said 7,011 short-term let licences had been...
Will Donald Trump find a IEEPA sympathy with the appellate court on his Liberation Day tariffs? At the very least, the Federal Circuit Appellate Court has enough sympathy to stay the ruling from the Court of International Trade for a little while as the administration appeals the decision. For now, tariffs are back on the...
The US Supreme Court has said it will allow the Trump administration to terminate deportation protections for some 350,000 Venezuelans in the US. The ruling lifts a hold that was placed by a California judge that kept Temporary Protected Status (TPS) in place for Venezuelans whose status’ would have expired last month. Temporary Protected Status...
    Situated on the outskirts of Sacramento is California’s largest master-planned community, McClellan Park. It has homes, offices, restaurants, a hotel and even a 2-mile-long runway that serves jets. But 30 years ago, the location was a starkly different story: an Air Force base that had just been shuttered, costing 11,600 jobs....
Daniel O’Donoghue BBC North West Investigations BBC Judith Robbins fears bankruptcy after her holiday lets were reclassified as second homes A woman who manages holiday lettings in a seaside resort has said she faces going out of business after the flats were declared to be “second homes”. Judith Robbins runs eight self-catering units in one...
Alcatraz stopped being a prison in 1963, before I was born. I did take a tour of it on a trip to San Francisco decades ago and I remember it seemed small and pretty run down even then. But mostly in my lifetime what I remember is the movies about it. There was The Rock...
Everything is easy, as long as you don’t have to consider reality. A while back, I wrote about Biden’s Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors, Jared Bernstein, who literally couldn’t explain what money is, where it comes from, or why the federal government didn’t just print as much as it wants and not borrow...
This weekend, in a rare occurrence, Christians of all denominations will be celebrating Easter at the same time as Eastern and Western Christian calendars coincide. Yet, as has become an undeniable reality for many Christian Palestinians, the only thing we share in common between our Easter and the Easter of many Christians in the West...
On Monday evening, the U.S Supreme Court ruled that, at least for now, the Trump administration can continue invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport migrants. The ruling comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order last month asserting his right to use the law. The ruling wasn’t a total win for...