The editor of the New York Times’ opinion section has resigned, his apology for publishing Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton’s call for deploying the military to quell unrest in US cities apparently insufficient to quell editorial unrest. James Bennet quit on Sunday after what was described as an “open revolt” by […]
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This article was published originally by PassBlue, a partner of The Daily Beast which provides independent coverage of the United Nations. It was written by Barbara Crossette. Two weeks after President Trump fired off a characteristically intemperate letter to the director-general of the World Health Organization, accusing him of incompetence in […]
The most serious political crisis that Boris Johnson has faced as British prime minister is getting worse. Johnson has become a lightning rod for the fury of the British public—frustrated and restless after nine weeks of lockdown restrictions—after his decision not to sack his top aide who was forced to […]
The under-secretary of state for Scotland has become the first UK government minister to resign from cabinet after PM Boris Johnson’s chief adviser Dominic Cummings allegedly broke lockdown rules at the height of Covid-19 crisis. In his resignation letter, published on social media on Monday morning, junior minister Douglas Ross […]
Telegram has thrown in the towel in its court battle against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and will no longer be fighting the ban on its blockchain token project. In a filing on Friday (see bottom), the messaging app provider said it was withdrawing its appeal over a […]
The British scientist known colloquially as “Professor Lockdown,” who pushed Prime Minister Boris Johnson to impose a nationwide lockdown, resigned on Tuesday after he defied social distancing guidelines to have a rendezvous with his married lover in his London home. Professor Neil Ferguson, who had been praised for his expertise […]