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Sir Jim Ratcliffe is hoisting a ‘for sale’ sign over the business he set up during the COVID-19 crisis to distribute hand sanitisers to medical professionals and consumers. Sky News has learnt that the billionaire petrochemicals tycoon has instructed advisers to launch an auction of Ineos Hygienics, which was created during the pandemic, establishing six…
On the Shelf Cleavage By Jennifer Finney BoylanCeladon Books: 256 pages, $29 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. βI hope people donβt think itβs a book about the history of breasts,β laughs Jennifer Finney Boylan via Zoom from her New…
Thank God for the stock market. The market is one of the only things Donald Trump can be expected to listen to β likely more than polls and certainly more than his advisors β even when he doesnβt want to hear what itβs saying. During his first term, Trump routinely took credit for every new…
NEW ORLEANSΒ βΒ Police cars are lined up in the narrow streets. Officers toting large firearms stand at alert. Barriers block many entrances to Bourbon Street. Behind two squad cars parked horizontally in front of a large truck that blocks the entrance to New Orleansβ famed street, a memorial greets visitors. Visitors view the memorial for the…
China has, as expected, hit back at Donald Trump’s imposition of a 10% tariff on its exports to the United States. Beijing has slapped levies of between 10-15% on a range of energy products that imports from the US. But what has surprised observers – particularly when Mr Trump kicked off the trade war over…
Millions of people face council tax hikes over normal thresholds after the government allowed six areas to boost rates above the usual 5%. More than two million people will be hit by increases of between 5 and 10%. Windsor and Maidenhead Council wanted to increase council tax by 25% but the plan was blocked –…
πListen to Politics At Jack And Sam’s on your podcast appπ Sky News’ deputy political editor Sam Coates and Politico’s Anne McElvoy look at the day ahead in British politics. Overnight, Donald Trump decided to pause tariffs on Canada and Mexico but pressed ahead with imposing them on China. They’ve retaliated by putting tariffs on…
Santa Margarita is on the verge of winning its first Trinity League basketball championship under coach Justin Bell. An 87-75 victory over Mater Dei on Monday night puts the Eagles at 21-5 and 7-2. Santa Margarita ends its regular season Tuesday against winless Servite, and a win would mean the Eagles will either take the…
China has retaliated after the US imposed 10% tariffs on its goods. Not long after the US taxes began at 5am British time, China said it was imposing 10% tariffs on American crude oil, agricultural machinery, large-displacement cars and pickup trucks. There will also be 15% tariffs on coal and liquefied natural gas, as well…
British fantasy author Neil Gaiman has been accused of human trafficking, sexual abuse, assault and rape in a lawsuit filed against him and estranged wife Amanda Palmer by their former nanny. The nanny, Scarlett Pavlovich, alleges in a lawsuit filed in a Wisconsin federal court Monday that Gaiman brutally and repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted…
