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Adrien Rabiot looks as if he is on his way to Manchester to sign for United. If things had turned out differently, the Frenchman could have been the poster boy for a new era on the other side of town but he managed less than a year in City’s academy as a teenager. In 2008, a City scout spotted a young Rabiot playing for Créteil in France. City sent representatives to speak with the then 13-year-old Rabiot, who was close to joining Paris Saint-Germain, and his mother, Veronique. Her desire to leave the country meant she was happy to be…

The cap on energy bills could top a breathtaking £5,000 next year, according to the bleakest forecast yet for struggling households – as ministers prepared to ‘bang heads together’ at an emergency Downing Street meeting of fat cat utilities bosses. Experts at energy consultancy Auxilione said that at yesterday energy prices they expect that regulator Ofgem could be forced to set the cap at £5,038 per year for the average household in the three months beginning next April. In news that heaps extra pressure on households across Britain, it also predicted that bills would reach £4,467 in January – £200 higher…

Energy companies that cannot offer lower bills should be temporarily brought into public ownership, Gordon Brown has said, in a stark challenge to political leaders on the day Liz Truss signalled a climbdown on help for households. Writing for the Guardian, Brown called for the energy price cap to be cancelled and for the government to negotiate new lower prices with the companies, comparing the situation to the 2009 banking crisis where some banks were temporarily nationalised to protect consumers. He warned the time for action was slipping away and major decisions had to be made within days. “Time and tide wait for no…

Seventeen Republican governors urged President Joe Biden on Aug. 10 to lift the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for international travelers, noting that dozens of countries around the world have rescinded vaccination requirements in recent months. Non-U.S. citizens who are also nonimmigrants must show proof of COVID-19 vaccination before traveling by air into the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) imposed the requirement in October 2021 at Biden’s direction. The order doesn’t make sense, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and 16 other governors wrote in a letter to the president. “The continued requirements, even as other countries are moving in the opposite direction, put…

Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon revealed more details on the circumstances surrounding the FBI’s Aug. 8 raid of his Mar-a-Lago home. “In early June, the DOJ and FBI asked my legal representatives to put an extra lock on the door leading to the place where boxes were stored in Mar-a-Lago – We agreed,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social on Aug. 10, likely referring to boxes that may have been used to store presidential records in Mar-a-Lago. “They were shown the secured area, and the boxes themselves.” “Then on Monday, without notification or warning, an army of agents…

Rishi Sunak has suffered yet another serious blow to his Tory leadership campaign as a senior former minister withdrew his support and backed Liz Truss instead. Chris Skidmore announced he was changing sides with a blast at the former chancellor, saying he was ‘increasingly concerned’ by the campaign’s ‘consistently changing position’ on policy. He is from the more liberal side of the party and heads up the Net Zero Support Group of environmentally aware Tories. The Kingswood MP is the first MP to publicly defect from one campaign to another and it came as Mr Sunak continues to struggle in the polls. His decision last night…

Ministers will need to at least double the amount of support given last time to help protect the poorest households from rising energy bills, the consumer rights campaigner Martin Lewis has said. In February, the then chancellor, Rishi Sunak, now vying for the Conservative party leadership, announced that eligible UK households would receive a £400 discount to help with energy bills from October. Speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme, Lewis said: “We’ve heard mutterings from the Rishi Sunak camp that he would increase the previous handouts that were given … but if he were to be consistent he would have…

Elon Musk has sold a further $6.9 billion of his shares in Tesla Inc., according to new filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission published on Aug. 9. The selloff took place between Aug.5 and Aug.9 following Tesla’s annual shareholder meeting last week, and amid the tech billionaire’s legal battle with social media platform Twitter. Musk sold 7,924,107 shares, according to multiple filings. He now owns just over 155 million shares in Tesla. In April, Musk sold 8.5 billion worth of shares in the company just days after he agreed to purchase Twitter for $44 billion. At the time, the businessman stated that there were “no further TSLA…

Rangers are one step away from the Champions League and what they will not unreasonably regard as the completion of a redemption story following their financial implosion of 2012. Union Saint-Gilloise entered this second leg two goals to the good. They left Ibrox dizzy. Rangers progressed to the playoff round with swagger. The prospect of both halves of the Old Firm playing Champions League group stage football for the first time since 2007-08 remains a live one. PSV Eindhoven lie between Rangers and their holy grail. “The pressure was on us,” said the Rangers manager, Giovanni van Bronckhorst. “I am so proud of my…

The FBI agents who raided former President Donald Trump’s Florida resort were looking for certain records, according to a lawyer for Trump who was on the scene while agents were at the resort. “They’re looking for presidential records, what they deemed to be presidential records, and anything that could potentially be classified,” Christina Bobb, the lawyer, told The Epoch Times on Aug. 9. “We had been very cooperative with them before. And it’s unclear to me why they went to such drastic measures to do this. But they did. And as far as the probable cause goes, they wouldn’t give that to us,” she…