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A lawyer for former President Donald Trump criticized the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the FBI raid on the 45th president’s Mar-a-Lago residence and said it is a “fair question” to ask whether the agency is engaging in a cover-up. “What we have in this situation is a historical first. And I mean that in a very negative way, to have this search warrant based on failed [National Archives] negotiations, I suppose, that allowed the government to basically ransack the president’s residence,” attorney James Trusty told Fox News this weekend. “You’d think in this era of the attorney general constantly talking about rule of law…

Sir Tom Scholar, the veteran permanent secretary at the Treasury, has been sacked by Kwasi Kwarteng as the new chancellor moves to purge economic “orthodoxy” from UK government thinking. Scholar, who had been at the heart of economic policy for two decades, was sacked on Tuesday, the day Liz Truss became prime minister. She has railed against “Treasury orthodoxy” and “abacus economics”. Kwarteng paid tribute to Scholar’s role in overseeing the government’s response to the 2008 financial crisis and the Covid-19 pandemic, but his face no longer fitted in a Truss administration. Truss and Kwarteng have been determined to break…

People travelling to Australia will no longer be required to wear masks, one week after the government dropped the mask mandate for domestic flights. The move, which takes effect on Sept. 9,  comes as COVID-19 restrictions continue to be axed across the nation. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler said the mask mandate was removed on the advice of the Chief Medical Officer that it is “no longer proportionate in the current context.” “The requirement to wear masks on international flights to Australia was first implemented in January 2021 to reduce the risk of transmission of COVID-19 on board flights,” he said. “I…

After the death of the Queen in Balmoral on Thursday, the royal family has a new line of succession. Here is the new hierarchy, with more children than adults now making up the top eight positions. 1 Prince William, 40 The eldest son of King Charles and Diana, the Duke of Cambridge is now heir apparent and next in line to the throne. 2. Prince George, nine Kate and William’s oldest son, George, takes William’s place as second in line to become the next British monarch. 3. Princess Charlotte, seven After the death of her grandmother, seven-year-old Charlotte becomes the most senior female…

Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-serving monarch in British history with a reign of 70 years and 214 days, died at age 96 on Sept. 8. The Prince of Wales is now King, having acceded to the throne immediately upon the death of his mother. In a statement, the Palace said: “The Queen died peacefully at Balmoral this afternoon. The King and The Queen Consort will remain at Balmoral this evening and will return to London tomorrow.” She was born Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor on Apr. 21, 1926. Her father was then known as Albert, Duke of York. At the age…

Football was an obvious irrelevance after the evening’s news but, once Uefa ruled the game should go ahead, Manchester United duly fulfilled their Europa League fixture against Real Sociedad. The death of Queen Elizabeth II threw a veil of sorrow over Old Trafford and a heartfelt tribute before kick-off brought those present together in a minute’s silence in respect to the monarch. The players and officials wore black armbands, the flags over the stadium flew at half-mast, pitch-side advertising hoardings were turned off, and United issued a statement that offered condolences and gratitude for the monarch’s “immense contribution to public life”. Once…

Loved by pre-school audiences in the UK, US, Australia and Latin America, Peppa Pig is arguably one of the most recognisable – and popular – cartoon animals in the world. It is perhaps no wonder, then, that the programme’s decision to introduce its first same-sex couple has made waves. During an episode titled Families, which first aired on Tuesday on Channel 5 in the UK, where Peppa Pig is made, the eponymous character was introduced to friend Penny Polar Bear’s mothers. While drawing a portrait of her family, Penny explained: “I live with my mummy and my other mummy. One…

Dr. Anthony Fauci, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and other top Biden administration officials who were resisting efforts to obtain their communications with Big Tech companies must hand over the records, a federal judge ruled on Sept. 6. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump appointee, ordered the government to quickly produce documents after it was sued by the attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri over alleged collusion with Big Tech firms such as Facebook. The initial tranche of discovery, released on Aug. 31, revealed that more than 50 government officials across a dozen agencies were involved in applying pressure to social media companies to censor users.…

LONDON—Lloyds Banking Group has been hit by more than 300 million pounds ($348 million) of suspected fraud linked to COVID-19 pandemic-era recovery loans for small businesses, the highest among big bank peers, according to government data. British banks overall have classified some 1.1 billion pounds worth of the emergency lending scheme known as “bounce back” loans as fraud, the data published on Monday by Britain’s Department for Business, Energy and Industry (BEIS) showed. Lloyds is the worst hit among big banks by net amount, and also saw a higher ratio of likely fraud with some 3.6 percent of its 8.5…

Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet next week in Uzbekistan, according to a Russian official. It will mark the first time the two leaders have spoken in person since the Ukraine war began in February. Xi and Putin will meet on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit, which will take place in the Uzbek city of Samarkand on Sept. 15-16, Russian Ambassador to China Andrey Denisov told reporters. “We are planning a serious, full-fledged meeting of our leaders with a detailed agenda, which we are now, in fact, working on with our Chinese partners,” Denisov said on Sept.…