<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> House prices have stopped falling and are rising again, according to a closely watched report from the mortgage lender Halifax. The average property price last month rose by 1.1 per cent in December. It was the third monthly rise in a row and well above economists’ forecasts of a 0.1 per cent […]Read More

<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> The number of new cars registered in the UK has jumped by nearly 18% but electric vehicle demand is flatlining, prompting the industry to call for a VAT cut to stimulate sales. Annual figures released by the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT) on Friday show 1.9m new cars were registered […]Read More

<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> The Yorkshire city of Sheffield is to get a new competitor rail service to London, promising faster travel times than the existing trains. FirstGroup, the listed passenger transport company, has submitted plans to launch a so-called open access service between Sheffield and London King’s Cross from 2025. Open access rail services are […]Read More

<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> One of the world’s largest insurance companies has been forced to pay thousands of pounds in interest to small businesses whose Covid insurance payout claims were delayed. The QBE Group’s initial payout just before Christmas of more than £386,000 to 86 companies raises the potential for a total outlay by insurers of […]Read More

<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> HSBC has become the first leading bank to cut mortgage rates below 4 per cent as a new year price war between lenders gathers pace. The bank cut rates by up to 0.85 percentage points on Wednesday, releasing a five-year fixed rate at 3.94 per cent for customers coming off their existing […]Read More

<?xml encoding=”utf-8″ ?????????> SpaceX has launched the first set of Starlink satellites capable of providing network coverage directly from space to standard smartphones in a service designed to eliminate global “dead zones”. Elon Musk’s space business signed deals with a series of wireless carriers in 2022 to launch the service: T-Mobile US confirmed yesterday that […]Read More

Twenty-five percent of Americans say it is “probably” or “definitely” true that the FBI instigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, a false concept promoted by right-wing media and repeatedly denied by federal law enforcement, according to a new Washington Post-University of Maryland poll. The Post-UMD poll finds a smaller 11 percent […]Read More

An Army lawyer who disputed his service’s official account of the Pentagon’s response to the U.S. Capitol assault on Jan. 6, 2021, claims he is the subject of professional reprisal for telling Congress that superior officers had lied to lawmakers investigating both the riot and the Trump administration’s reaction to the violence. Earl G. Matthews, […]Read More

“DeSantis called China ‘Florida’s most important trading partner.’ DeSantis even allowed a Chinese military contractor to expand just miles from a U.S. naval base.” — Voice-over on a campaign ad by SFA Fund, a super PAC that backs former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley (R), released Jan. 2 In the battle between Florida Gov. Ron […]Read More

A federal court late Wednesday posted nearly 950 pages of documents related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, including dozens of previously redacted names associated with the infamous case. It was not immediately clear whether the documents reveal significant new information about the politically connected multimillionaire, who was accused of abusing dozens of teenage girls […]Read More