Elizabeth Warren Warns Trump Nominee: Hands Off The Fed

LOADINGERROR LOADING The soon-to-be top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee cautioned Scott Bessent, Donald Trump’s pick to be the next treasury secretary, to respect the Federal Reserve’s policy independence. “I have been a fierce critic of Fed Chair Jerome Powell’s extreme interest rate hikes and lack of transparency, but I have never questioned that … Read more

Dozens of councils to be abolished by Labour in huge shake-up

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (Image: Getty) Dozens of councils are set to be abolished under plans being drawn up by ministers. Essex, Kent, Surrey, Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk are in line to have their district councils ditched and merged into new unitary authorities. There are 21 county councils across England, with 164 district councils … Read more

How chess is battling a cheating crisis with high-tech security and polygraph tests

Vladimir Kramnik and José Martínez Alcántara at the World Chess ‘Clash of Blames’ tournament (Image: Getty Images for World Chess) Private surveillance firms, background screening and sweeping for electronic devices – all these might sound like the type of security measures needed to get into Downing Street or the White House. Yet such is the … Read more

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