Laura Kuenssberg Presenter, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg•@bbclaurak BBC “If this is true, all our troubles are over.” A British businessman fast running out of cash, William Knox D’Arcy, is said to have uttered those words when he received a telegram from Persia, 113 years ago. Oil had been discovered, after years of failed explorations under...
In 2021, California became the first state in the nation to mandate high school students take a one semester ethnic studies class to graduate. The class was set to begin this fall, i.e. the 2025-2026 academic school year. However, there are problems now because under the law, the class can’t become mandatory unless there is...
Getty Images Thames Water has been fined a record £122.7m and been told it has “let down its customers and failed to protect the environment” by the water regulator Ofwat. The company has huge debts and is struggling to fix leaks, stop sewage spills, and modernise outdated infrastructure. It serves about a quarter of the...
In the tariff war between China and the United States, a lot of chatter in the Pravda Media is about Xi Jinping’s defiance, his outreach to European countries and other less important but collectively significant developing countries, and his retaliatory moves against America. They make it sound like China has a lot of cards to...
Jennifer Meierhans Business reporter Getty Images The UK government is poised to take control of a major British Steel plant in Scunthorpe, which is at risk of imminent closure. MPs have been called back from their Easter break to pass an emergency law which would keep the Chinese-owned site operating. What is British Steel and...
This story was originally published by The New Lede. A Trump administration move to axe key food safety advisory committees could leave the public more vulnerable to food-borne illnesses, critics fear, particularly alongside current legislative efforts to undermine proposed safety regulations on food processors. The decision to cut the committees, which brought together academics, industry...