(Reuters) – Mastercard Inc made a 233 million pound ($305 million) bid to take over payments firm Earthport Plc on Friday, as it looks to head off rival Visa Inc’s attempts to buy the British company. Mastercard’s offer is at a 10 percent premium to Visa’s 198 million pound offer. Visa said later in the […]

To the Editor: Re “A Gamble Fails, Overcrowding Migrant Shelters” (front page, Jan. 5): The Trump administration is committing flagrant human rights violations by deliberately making the legal process of obtaining asylum unnecessarily unbearable and drawn out. There is no doubt that there is a human rights crisis at the border, but it is largely […]

This is Jamelle Bouie’s debut column. The wall of Donald Trump’s campaign and presidency has always operated both as a discrete proposal — an actual structure to be built under his leadership — and as a symbol with a clear meaning. Whether praised by its supporters or condemned by its opponents, the wall is a […]

The weather, as expected, has turned wintry. Then again, this is winter. This change has given justification to those who always expect the worst. Like, for example, The Man Who Knows Everything (TMWKE), who is a native of hereabouts but knows all there is to be known about thereabouts. Please sign in or register with […]

To the Editor: Re “President Delays His State of Union Amid a Shutdown” (front page, Jan. 24): Finally, President Trump (or someone around him) has shown some smarts. The decision to postpone the State of the Union speech is a savvy maneuver. Of course, Mr. Trump intends to use the speech to ballyhoo the tremendous […]

One of the possible consequences of the continuing political deadlock at Westminster might be a snap general election in Britain. In this scenario, it would be highly desirable to create some kind of anti-Brexit front on a cross-community basis in Northern Ireland. A central point of any such arrangement would need to be a willingness, […]

At least when it comes to the support of specialty hockey team licence plates, the Edmonton Oilers are winning the Battle of Alberta against the Calgary Flames. According to Service Alberta, a total of 4,507 Oilers- and Flames-themed licence plates have been sold between Nov. 19, 2018 and Jan. 20, 2019. Edmonton Oilers fans purchased […]

As Housing Minister, I’ve always been open to people’s criticism. The Government doesn’t have all the answers. People are hurting and they need help. As a community, we have to pool our best ideas together and drive them towards solutions to the housing shortage and homeless crisis. But those ideas have to be based on […]

CARACAS, Venezuela — On Wednesday morning, Juan Guaidó, 35, stood before tens of thousands of disillusioned Venezuelans and held the country’s Constitution while swearing himself in as interim president. Mr. Guaidó is the polar opposite of President Nicolás Maduro: A young leader — he heads the democratically elected National Assembly — whose reputation is not […]

In 1900, there were two great philosophers working side by side at Harvard, William James and Josiah Royce. James was from an eminent Boston family and had all the grace, brilliance and sophistication that his class aspired to. Royce, as the historian Allen Guelzo points out, was the first major American philosopher born west of […]