In this article F GM TSLA Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images Tesla CEO Elon Musk challenged the United Auto Workers to try and organize employees at his company’s plant in Fremont, California, and stepped up his attacks on the Biden administration’s policies. In a series of tweets this week, Musk went
Labour has held Birmingham Erdington in the by-election triggered by the sudden death of frontbencher Jack Dromey. Former nurse and mother-of-five Paulette Hamilton, 59, won with a majority of 3,266 but the by-election failed to inspire voters, with a turnout of just 27%. She picked up 9,413 votes, ahead of Conservative candidate Robert Alden with 6,147.
Russian troops have seized Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after it was shelled overnight, sparking a fire but no release of radioactive material, the UN’s atomic watchdog has said. The attack on the southeastern city of Enerhodar and its Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant had led to fears of a nuclear disaster, with immediate condemnation from world
A fire has broken out at Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant after the Russian army targeted it “from all sides” in the Ukrainian city of Energodar. Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba has urged troops to immediately stop shooting at Zaporizhzhia power station so firefighters can take action. Officials have warned there is a “real threat
A 28-year-old man has been found guilty of murdering his partner’s toddler after “taunting” and beating him for months. Kyrell Matthews was found in cardiac arrest at his home in October 2019, with 41 fractured ribs “crushed or broken by blows” and a 1.6 inch cut to his liver caused by blunt force trauma. The
Russia’s former deputy prime minister and a billionaire who previously held a major stake in football club Arsenal have become the latest oligarchs to be sanctioned by the UK, the Foreign Office said. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Alisher Usmanov, who owned more than 30% of Arsenal before selling up to current owner Stan Kroenke,
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A driver holds a fuel nozzle at a Shell gas station in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Russia’s Ukraine invasion could have set in motion an energy market disruption on the scale of major oil crises in the 1970s, according to Daniel Yergin,
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson claims he didn’t lie about the alleged parties that took place in Downing Street during lockdown in May 2022. He maintains he believes he was attending a work event saying “no one told me we were breaking the rules.” But he lowered his head when talking about having to apologise
In a speech to the European Parliament, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky described the missile attacks that hit Kharkiv’s Freedom Square and killed civilians. CNN’s Christiane Amanpour reports. #CNN #News
Co-op supermarket has removed a Russian vodka brand from sale with immediate effect “as a sign of solidarity with the people of Ukraine”. Russian Standard vodka, which is distilled in St Petersburg, will no longer appear on shelves at Co-op, the company has announced. A Co-op spokesperson said: “In response to the ongoing invasion of Ukraine
The impact of Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine on oil and gas prices is now very apparent. The price of Brent crude surged to $119.84 a barrel on Thursday – a level last seen on 1 May 2012 – while the price of wholesale gas remains close to the record highs it hit just before
Neighbours has confirmed it will come to an end this June after nearly 37 years on screen. The future of the Australian soap had been in doubt for some time since Channel 5 announced last month it would be axing the show from its schedules. The long standing show’s end was confirmed today after no
8:30 AM ET Andrei Svechnikov has two locations listed in his Instagram bio. One is Raleigh, North Carolina, where the Carolina Hurricanes star has played for the past four seasons. The other is Kazan, the Russian city where his family lived after stops in Moscow and Siberia. Svechnikov is Russian, a designation that’s taken on
Ministers are considering emergency legislation to push through sanctions on Russian oligarchs linked to President Putin. Government sources have told Sky News that experts are looking at whether current laws could be tweaked or new ones brought in to speed up the process, which has stalled over recent days. Ukraine-Russia news live: Dire warning from
7:00 AM ET Bryce Young finished his first season as Alabama‘s full-time starting quarterback with the second-most passing touchdowns (47) and yards (4,872) in the FBS en route to the 2021 Heisman Trophy. But will he repeat? Not if Ohio State standout C.J. Stroud has anything to say about it. Stroud is coming off a
Marilyn Manson is suing his former fiancee Evan Rachel Wood for defamation, saying she has cast him as a “rapist and abuser”. The Westworld actress claims the musician – whose real name is Brian Warner – sexually and physically abused her during their relationship. Manson, 53, has denied the allegations and has now filed a
NASA is offering space enthusiasts a chance to fly their names around the Moon. The US space agency has set up a website where you can add your name on a flash drive that will travel aboard Artemis I, an unmanned mission to orbit the Moon and test the Space Launch System (SLS). Artemis I
Donald Trump and his team tried “to defraud the US” by manipulating the results of the 2020 presidential election, the congressional committee investigating the Capitol riot has said. The select committee of politicians looking into what happened in Washington DC on 6 January 2021 said it has “a good-faith basis for concluding that the president
The government should seize properties owned by oligarchs close to Vladimir Putin and use them to house Ukrainian refugees fleeing the Russian invasion, the Liberal Democrats have said. Alistair Carmichael, the party’s home affairs spokesperson, has made the call in a letter to Home Secretary Priti Patel. Russia ‘seizes’ Kherson, as blasts light up sky