China has begun another series of military exercises around Taiwan as tensions continue to rise following a 24-hour visit to the island by US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Chinese state media is reporting the drills are underway hours after suspected drones flew over Taiwan’s territory on Wednesday and hackers targeted the defence ministry’s website. Taiwan
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This is the moment that matters. On the advice of the National Cyber Security Centre, an arm of GCHQ, the Conservative party has delayed sending out ballot papers to its members – originally expected last weekend. As a result the next seven days, beginning today, are now crucial to determining the next prime minister of
Ford released its July 2022 sales today, showing that the automaker continues its push into the EV market. In fact, rising Ford EV sales boosted the automaker to become the best-selling brand this past month. In an all-out effort to dethrone the EV king, Tesla ($TSLA), legacy automakers are turning their efforts to electric vehicles.
5:00 PM ET Editor’s note: This originally ran Monday and has been updated with the news the NFL is appealing Deshaun Watson’s six-game suspension, seeking a tougher penalty for violating the league’s personal conduct policy based on accusations ranging from inappropriate behavior to sexual assault during massage sessions. More than two years after the first
Every weekday the CNBC Investing Club with Jim Cramer holds a “Morning Meeting” livestream at 10:20 a.m. ET. Here’s a recap of Wednesday’s key moments. Oil is all about Russia Quick mentions: AMD, F Eli Lilly reports Thursday 1. Oil is all about Russia U.S. oil prices, as measured by West Texas Intermediate crude futures
JetBlue Airways passengers in a crowded terminal on April 7, 2022 in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Robert Nickelsberg | Getty Images News | Getty Images It wasn’t long ago that Amazon, Shopify and Peloton doubled their workforces to manage through the pandemic surge, while Morgan Stanley staffed up to handle
Archie Battersbee’s life support will be withdrawn at 11am, unless his family launch a High Court bid by 9am to move him to a hospice. His parents plan to file the application by the deadline. They lost their latest legal appeal to stop doctors ending life-sustaining hospital treatment for their brain-damaged son after a European
Rebekah Vardy has said she feels there was “a lot of sexism” in the coverage of her “Wagatha Christie” legal row with Coleen Rooney. Vardy attempted to sue her fellow WAG for defamation, but a High Court judge ruled that Rooney’s Instagram post outing Vardy for leaking stories to The Sun newspaper was “substantially true”.
A US congresswoman and three others have been killed in a car crash in the state of Indiana. Republican Jackie Walorski died in what police say was a head-on collision in Elkhart County at around 12.30pm on Wednesday. Ms Walorski, 58, had represented Indiana’s 2nd congressional district since 2012. Police say a northbound passenger car
Internet conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has admitted that the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre was “100% real” after previously claiming it was a hoax. “Especially since I’ve met the parents. It’s 100% real,” the Infowars host told a court in Texas on Wednesday. Jurors in the trial are hearing evidence to determine how much Jones
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North Korea’s top diplomat in Italy, Jo Song Gil, has been missing for weeks, a South Korean lawmaker said, raising suspicions that he may have defected. #CNN #News
Sajid Javid has thrown his support behind Liz Truss as the next Conservative Party leader, in what will come as a huge blow to Rishi Sunak. The former health secretary, and ex-leadership hopeful, attacked Mr Sunak’s economic policies as he revealed his choice in The Times this evening. He suggested Mr Sunak’s refusal to cut
The roads leading south are empty of cars. Fighting is intensifying here along this front as Ukraine tries to recapture the city of Kherson. We travelled with a military escort through checkpoints, along desolate highways, to reach the slowly shifting frontlines. The villages have all been heavily shelled – and it’s getting worse. The roofs
Hope of a meaningful drop in global oil prices have been dashed after a major group of oil-producing nations, including Russia, agreed to increase volumes by a much lower rate than requested. The United States had called on the OPEC+ cartel to raise output by at least 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) to help ease
The BBC should have further explored issues that were being raised about DJ Tim Westwood, an internal review into allegations of sexual misconduct has found. A review by the BBC has documented several accusations against Westwood, as well as complaints of alleged use of sexualised comments while on air and that he created a “toxic
6:30 AM ET ESPN staff Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, and starting in 2020, the pandemic made a sport tethered to longstanding traditions and norms reconsider almost everything. From recruiting via video chat to scheduling games on a few days’ notice, decision-makers around college football were forced to be open-minded about new
An underwater volcano that erupted in the South Pacific near Tonga on January 15 this year causing a catastrophe in the archipelago. The Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai eruption also triggered an earthquake and tsunami that flooded the country. A new study indicates that during this event, the volcano spewed not just ash into the atmosphere but also a
Lightning strikes quickly and often it would seem. According to news from Ford Motor Company this morning, customers in all fifty states have received F-150 Lightning pickups just two months after deliveries began. Here are a few of those customers’ stories. The Ford F-150 Lightning is the first all-electric pickup from the blue oval brand and has
People photographed in Lower Saxony, Germany, on July 19, 2022. A number of European countries were affected by a heatwave last month. Julian Stratenschulte | Picture Alliance | Getty Images It’s been called a “global emergency that goes beyond national borders” and described as “the biggest threat to security that modern humans have ever faced.”