President Trump has invited the American people to what he claims will be the biggest and best Fourth of July celebration in the nation’s history. Influenced by the huge nationalist displays he witnessed in Europe, Mr. Trump promises “a really great parade to show our military strength.” And he will treat the country to a […]

A new study has found the U.S national anthem to be the world’s most rousing. The Star Spangled Banner claimed the top spot in the U.K. study, followed by Germany’s Deutschlandlied. “I think some of the things that make it more rousing is it involves a stirring use of percussive and brass instruments,” said CALM […]

This article is part of David Leonhardt’s newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it each weekday. The Supreme Court recently threw out the quadruple murder conviction of Curtis Flowers, a Mississippi man whom I’ve written about before. It was a good decision. Justice Brett Kavanaugh, writing an opinion signed by six other justices, […]

LONDON (Reuters) – Student housing provider Unite (UTG.L) is to acquire rival Liberty Living Group in a 1.4 billion pounds ($1.76 billion) cash and shares deal that will see Canada’s Pension Plan Investment Board take a 20 percent stake in the enlarged group. Unite also proposed a placing of 26,353,664 new ordinary shares on Wednesday […]

SYDNEY/BENGALURU (Reuters) – Australia’s biggest supermarket chain Woolworths Group Ltd (WOW.AX) said on Wednesday it will combine and spin off its drinks and pubs units to focus on its core business, cutting back its contentious involvement in poker-machine gambling. The demerger would give investors exposure to a standalone listed operator of 1,500 liquor stores and […]

The new laws ostensibly aimed at relieving the housing crisis by destroying the concept and availability of Airbnb are another example of the moral bankruptcy of the Government and Housing Minister Eoghan Murphy. The original concept of Airbnb – travellers on a low budget staying with families in their own homes and being given information […]

Good morning. We’re covering vanishing ships in the Persian Gulf, China’s new surveillance tools and the great journey of a speedy arctic fox. China denounces ‘extreme radicals’ in Hong Kong China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that the demonstrators who stormed the city’s legislature this week had committed “serious and illegal acts” that […]

(Reuters) – Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has held talks with Citigroup Inc (C.N), BNP Paribas SA (BNPP.PA) and others that could involve transferring parts of its equities business, including operations that serve hedge funds and other big trading customers, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday. Sources told Reuters last month that the bank plans to […]

This week, more than 2,000 signatories — members of Congress, women’s rights groups, businesses — submitted nearly 50 friend-of-the-court briefs to the Supreme Court in three pending cases involving L.G.B.T.Q. rights. The cases, which the court is likely to take up next session, consider whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which […]

HONG KONG — After breaking into Hong Kong’s legislature, protesters left a message for Carrie Lam, the city’s top government official, spray-painted on a pillar: “It was you who taught me that peaceful protests are futile.” To the young activists, the storming of the Legislative Council was an act of desperation. Three times in the […]