Natalie Sherman Business reporter, BBC News Lily Jamali North America technology correspondent Reporting fromSan Francisco Nur Photo/Getty Images Donald Trump’s family business is launching a new Trump-branded phone service, in its latest plan to cash in on the US president’s name. The Trump Organization, which is run by his sons, said it planned to sell...
I am a pretty much a First Amendment absolutist. People should be allowed to say whatever they want within the well-understood boundaries of the law. This applies very much to American citizens and, within reason, to Green Card holders. I tend to think that guests of any kind should be required to meet minimum standards,...
Seriously, what is the point of defending Europe? Well, maybe to defend the Louvre and some monuments to a once-great culture? I can’t think of many other reasons, now that the continent has descended once-again into the 1930s-style of fascism (no, not the Nazis of the late thirties and 40s, but more Mussolini-style fascism). Elections...
The American Academy of Pediatrics is e prime example of a broader phenomenon: “expert” organizations’ tendency to hew the Party Line superseding their commitment to promoting the cause to which they are nominally committed. Not long ago, I wrote about the American Heart Association coming out strongly in favor of using SNAP benefits to pay...
Members of the World Health Organization (WHO) have agreed the text of a legally binding treaty designed to better tackle future pandemics. The pact is meant to avoid the disorganisation and competition for resources seen during the Covid-19 outbreak. Key elements include the rapid sharing of data about new diseases, to ensure scientists and pharmaceutical...
A report released by the World Meteorological Organization on Tuesday found that not only was 2024 the warmest year in a 175-year observational period, reaching a global surface temperature of roughly 1.55°C above the preindustrial average for the first time, but each of the past 10 years were also individually the 10 warmest on record....