Target Apologizes and Drops Halloween Costume Criticized as Racist
Critics said the children’s costume evoked blackface imagery. Target said, “We know we got this wrong, and we are deeply...
Many N.F.L. Players Get Brain Disease. Why Hasn’t OSHA Intervened?
“We never see things that are this dire,” a former chief scientist of the agency said about rates of C.T.E. in former pl...
Is It Time for This 95-Year-Old Pianist to Retire?
Her vision and hearing are deteriorating, but she still wants to feel like she’s on top.
From Scotland, I look at England’s water privatisation disaster. I wish you had done what we did | Devi Sridhar
Listening to debate, you’d think bringing English water companies into public ownership was a radical socialist idea. He...
Lego posts record first-half revenue, CEO touts strong sales at high-end and value pricing
The brickmaker posted a 21% revenue bump for the first half of the year, boosted once again by its now-stalwart lines li...
Gold hits highest level in three months as traders worry about US inflation and bond market jitters – business live
Spot gold touches almost $4,700 an ounce and Bitcoin tops $80,000 while oil prices fall despite threat of heavy US sanct...
Lloyds Bank is holding on to our urgently needed £5,500
We want our balance back, but we can’t access the money to pay for essential repairs and settle an electricity billLast ...
‘Petty grievances’ and an alleged troublemaker: unsealed Murdoch court documents give rare glimpse into bitter succession battle
Rupert Murdoch said in newly released correspondence that it would be a disaster if his media empire fell into the ‘wron...
The Gurkha families fighting for their pensions
Image caption, Indumati Thapa says her pension and benefits do not cover the day-to-day costs of livingByPatrick O'...
Drought leaves 'barely any apples' to make cider
Image caption, Kimberly Jones has seen just 10% of the usual apple crop at her cider orchardByDave HarveyWest of England...
‘Never seen this level of objection’: Scotland pushes back against datacentre boom
A protest outside Holyrood in June against proposed datacentres across Scotland. Photograph: Ken Jack/Getty ImagesView ...
Canadians do not seek a trade war – but neither will we be bullied by Donald Trump | Jen Gerson
A fundamental rupture in the values that have united North America is not a problem that can be wished away: this is a w...