Briefing to lawmakers over September 2 mission comes as Trump and Hegseth seek to distance themselves

Grizzly Research claims that online review site pressured companies to subscribe to improve their ratings

Defence secretary faces serious questions over strikes on alleged drug smuggling boats

Reform UK leader insisted at a press conference that he had never said anything racist ‘with malice’

Rallying call by Sam Altman raises questions over the company’s priorities in the new phases of competition

Government plans to lift current limit of £118,000

Social media company considers cutting unit’s budget by as much as 30%

Financial Conduct Authority says regulation is not meant to ‘make judgments on political discourse’

China’s favouring of small and cheap models such as DeepSeek could prove to be the better bet

Charlie Nunn says system of tokenised deposits has potential to spark change as dramatic as invention of smartphone

Insurgent parties to left and right peddle nonsense economics but enjoy dramatically rising support

Donald Trump’s special envoy to brief Kyiv’s chief negotiators on Kremlin meeting

Charge on cash in stocks-and-shares Isas ‘essentially a tax’, Michael Summersgill says

Nigel Farage’s party attracts far more funding than Labour and the Conservatives

And the prospects for a Hassett-led Fed

Tougher Home Office rules prompt several higher education institutions to suspend applications

Two leaders stress need for multilateralism amid rising trade tensions

Proposal marks a last-ditch attempt to keep Ukraine solvent using Moscow’s immobilised wealth

Brussels expected to announce investigation in coming days in its latest challenge to Big Tech

Elon Musk’s $1tn incentive plan supercharges a long history of rewards driving up executive pay

Decision sparks concern among China hawks that Donald Trump is sacrificing national security

Investors fret over government’s spending plans and brace themselves for interest rate increase

President insists prices have come down despite voter frustration over high cost of living

A chaotic seven-month search cast the net wide but ended with Mark Tucker’s interim replacement