Since Truth API was announced, some have raised the potential for insider trading to occur. The practice, which is illegal, involves people making market trades or bets based on information that is not available to the general public. Richard Painter, former chief ethics lawyer to President George W Bush, told the BBC even if Trump…
The North Sea has increasingly become a topic for political debate. In its 2024 general election manifesto, Labour said it would not issue new licences for drilling, but would honour existing ones. But in recent months, as the Iran war pushed up global oil prices, calls have grown for more North Sea drilling to be…
The book collection of the creator of The Snowman and Fungus the Bogeyman has gone on sale at Oxfam’s Hove bookshop in East Sussex and online. More than 1,000 books from the collection of Raymond Briggs, the beloved British author and cartoonist, were donated by his estate after his death aged 88 in 2022. Briggs’s…
Chinese online retail giant AliExpress has been fined a record €550m (£467m) by the EU for allowing the sale of illegal products such as unsafe toys and fake clothes. The European Commission said AliExpress has fallen short of its legal obligations “diligently assess” the risk of illegal, unsafe or fake goods on its platform. “The…
It may be the middle of summer now, but you’ll definitely be thanking yourself in the fall when you grab this Oprah Winfrey-approved blanket in the Nordstrom Anniversary Sale! The mogul’s “Favorite Things” list is something we always look forward to every year, with a curated selection of picks that she loves. And we just…
The investigation involved a mystery shopping exercise carried out by an independent testing organisation, which found that a high percentage of chargers purchased through Temu failed basic electrical safety tests. It also found that a high proportion of baby toys posed safety risks, containing chemicals above legal limits or featuring small detachable parts that presented…
The May/June 2026 issue of NME Magazine, with Mandy, Indiana on the cover, is out now – alongside a copy of Guitar.com Magazine featuring Grace Bowers. Having first launched in 1952, NME’s last printed edition of the weekly incarnation of the magazine ceased in 2018. In July 2023, NME announced our return to print with…
Surprise, gamers. Valve just launched the first-ever Black Friday Steam sale, and you know what that means: massive discounts on figurative tons of PC games. You can head over to SteamPowered.com to look around, but Valve’s Steam Deck handheld is certainly the star of the show today. The base model has a rare discount, from…
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