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By Ronen Bergman, Farnaz Fassihi, Eric Schmitt, Adam Entous and Richard Pérez-Peña Nicola Sturgeon’s Husband Is Charged in Party Finance ... startled the world, prompting talk of cloud ... Read More

Watchdog report finds Google meddled with US elections, company denies wrongdoing

The latest allegations of election interference don’t point fingers at Russia or China but at American-owned Google. Conservative watchdog group Media Research Center published a special report ... Read More

US falls out of world’s top 20 happiest countries list for the first time ever

World Happiness Report reveals country dropped from 15th to 23rd place, driven in part by a decline in happiness among young people The US has fallen out of the top 20 happiest countries to live ... Read More

US considering plea deal for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange to end extradition battle: report

The US Justice Department is considering offering ... break his more than decade-long self-exile, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that federal prosecutors ... Read More

Conservatives question credibility of watchdog review

The Welsh Conservatives have questioned the credibility of a review of Wales' public services watchdog, announced on Monday after allegations of political bias against an investigator. Senior ... Read More

Intelligence watchdog completes report on Chinese interference allegations, sends it to PM

The NSICOP report is separate from the commission probing similar allegations ... rules of evidence and procedure that should enable us to reconcile the objectives of transparency and the ... Read More

French watchdog fines Google $271M over alleged breaches in AI-powered chatbot training

France's competition watchdog fined Google $271 million for allegedly breaching EU intellectual property rules with media publishers. Google's AI chatbot Bard, now called Gemini, was reportedly ... Read More

US and UK go after Chinese hackers accused of state-backed operation against politicians, dissidents

As part of the cyber-intrusion campaign, prosecutors said, the hackers sent more than 10,000 emails to targets all over the world that purported ... At the time, the watchdog said the data ... Read More

Relocating UK Asylum Seekers From Hotels Will Not Save Money, Watchdog Says

Relocating UK Asylum Seekers From Hotels Will Not Save Money, Watchdog Says By Andrew ... The opposition Labour Party called the NAO's report "staggering". "(The government) is already paying ... Read More

The US just announced an asbestos ban. What took so long?

The US has announced a ban on the only form of asbestos ... In 2012, he tweeted that the World Trade Center would not have "burned down" in the 11 September 2001 attacks if its "incredibly ... Read More

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The White House would not specify what could change about U.S. policy, but it could include altering military sales to Israel and America’s diplomatic backup on the world stage. Netanyahu’s ... Read More

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Israeli officials say they didn’t see a strike on a high-level Iranian target in Syria as a provocation, and did not give Washington a heads-up about it until right before it happened. By ... Read More