Politics

Sam Altman's Orb startup investigated bribery and financial misconduct allegations

Tools for Humanity hired two law firms to investigate alleged financial irregularities and bribery of foreign officials, sources say.

How Keir Starmer was undone by caution and no clear plan

Labour in ‘last chance saloon’ as party’s shortest-serving prime minister announces resignation

Burnham will have to be brave if he wants to get Britain growing again

Unfortunately UK politics is hostile to making tough, but necessary, choices

US and Iran hold crunch talks in Switzerland

Negotiations to permanently end the war focus on Israeli-Hizbollah conflict in Lebanon

Trump admin’s coal investments assist plants with repeated violations

At least three coal plants have been repeatedly cited for violating environmental regulations.

States are embracing AI to help manage safety-net programs

Experts warn glitches could cost people food aid or health care.

Back-stabbing myths are driving the US and Europe further apart

Competing narratives of abandonment — from Iran to Greenland — could lead to Nato’s permanent unravelling

Keir Starmer on brink of quitting as UK prime minister

US President Donald Trump says Starmer will resign after failing ‘badly’

Why Giorgia Meloni turned on Donald Trump

Italian premier’s fallout with US president comes as she gears up for re-election battle

Reform UK has a new set of problems

The fight for the right is far from settled, as the Makerfield and Aberdeen by-elections showed

Sorry, Elon, the Far Right Is Still the Far Right

And on some issues, it’s further to the right than before

Vladimir Putin’s war machine sputters in drone age

Ukraine’s innovations cut into Russia’s manpower advantage