Washington – President Trump is putting pressure on Iran. It would either have to scale back its nuclear programme or face possible military attacks, grappling with an issue that has troubled presidents of both parties for decades. Iran – which denies any nuclear weapons ambitions – has amassed growing reserves of uranium enriched to the…
The author works as a sommelier at the Michelin-starred restaurant Timberyard. If you’ve ever spent your morning commute dreaming of starting your career afresh, this feature is for you. Every Monday we speak to someone from a different profession to find out what it’s really like. This week we chat to Joe Radford, sommelier at…
Social media testing is underway in Los Angeles. What happens next could change the way they work. Inside L.A.’s Supreme Court, a historic trial is underway. Accusations are mounting that social media companies, like tobacco and cigarettes in the 1980s, are addictive by design. He will face about 22 “bellwether” trials, i.e., test cases, with…
Oil is at the heart of Donald Trump’s Venezuela gamble. Within a day of the US operation that ousted President Nicolas Maduro, Trump made clear his top priority: reviving the country’s oil industry. “We’re going to join our very large American oil companies—the biggest in the world—to spend billions of dollars, fix the badly broken…
