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From the fringes to the official US ballot paper. This year, there are white supremacists, conspiracy theorists and extremists among those attempting to run for office – as Republicans. Perhaps the most shocking among them is Arthur Jones, the former leader of the American Nazi Party, who is gunning for a seat in the suburbs…
Gary Gibbon
Some of those close to David Davis who were urging him to resign over the new direction of Brexit policy were in no doubt what they thought the point of such a resignation would be. “She’s got to go,” one of them told me last week. The same Davis ally thought the hard line Brexiteers…
RBS has had to agree to a £3.6 billion penalty with the US Department of Justice to end the investigation into sales of financial products – some of them toxic mortgage bonds – just before the 2008 financial crisis. Channel 4 News has seen a damning internal review into Lloyds’ disastrous takeover of HBOS in…
Within hours of the UN ceasefire resolution Syria began its next phase of the war – to retake parts of Eastern Ghouta with ground forces. The bombing and rebel mortar attacks were slightly down but still there were claims that 22 were reportedly killed in the rebel-territory today. Eastern Ghouta is a big region starting…
We wanted to know what some of those small businesses affected by RBS thought of the chief executive’s rather robust response. So we showed our interview to the businesswoman Mary Galbraith, who you saw in Siobhan Kennedy’s report. I asked her first what she made of Ross McEwan’s admission that customers haven’t been treated very…
Liam Dutton
Predicting snow in the UK is difficult and weather computer models rarely get it right more than a few days ahead. But why is this the case?
North Korea has obtained the money, knowledge and materials to build nuclear missiles which – it claims – can reach American soil. But it would be in this position without help from the outside world. FactCheck follows North Korea’s nuclear trail, from the Soviet Union to South London.
It’s ten years since the financial crisis. How many people have been prosecuted for their part?
The popular quiz show host Noel Edmonds has turned into something of an anti-banks campaigner after he claims he lost millions through his dealings with HBOS. He’s now involved in a £300m compensation battle with Lloyds Banking group, to cover losses relating to the collapse of his entertainment firm a decade ago and what he…
Helia Ebrahimi
The BNP Paribas announcement turned out to be the starting gun to the global financial crisis.
President Trump has grudgingly signed a bill to impose new sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea – measures agreed overwhelmingly by Congress last week. He’s criticised the legislation as ‘deeply flawed’. It curbs his power to roll back penalties on Russia, and hurts his hopes of improving relations with the Kremlin.
Siobhan Kennedy
It’s difficult to overstate the significance of the Serious Fraud Office’s charges against Barclays PLC and the four senior Barclays bankers- including John Varley, its former boss and one of the most high profile names in the City.
The Turkish President has blamed the Netherlands for the massacre by Serbs of 7,000 Bosnian boys and men in Srebrenica two decades ago, escalating a row between the two countries.
Jon Snow
As his own inauguration speech made it clear – we can no longer expect America to deal with the crises that beset us.
There is actually no evidence that any harm has come to Baghdadi, and the US military is still working on the assumption that he is at large.