Jonathan Toebbe and wife arrested in West Virginia after nuclear engineer makes ‘dead drop’ to undercover FBI agentA US navy nuclear engineer with access to military secrets has been charged with trying to pass information about the design of American …
Facebook: Nick Clegg avoids questions on whistleblower Haugen’s testimony
Facebook executive wouldn’t say if he believed platform bore responsibility for amplifying baseless claims of stolen electionFrances Haugen: Facebook whistleblower – and modern hero?The Facebook executive Nick Clegg took a damage-limitation tour of US …
House Capitol attack panel ready to urge prosecution of Trump aides, says Schiff
Mark Meadows, Dan Scavino, Steve Bannon and Kash Patel all defying subpoenas under instruction from TrumpInterview: Adam Schiff on Trump’s threat to democracyThe House select committee investigating the deadly assault on the US Capitol on 6 January is …
US treasury secretary Yellen: global minimum corporate tax will pass
Minimum global corporate rate of 15% agreed by 136 countries as Yellen also says US will raise debt ceiling on 3 DecemberThe US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, said on Sunday she was confident Congress would approve legislation to implement the globa…
Squid Game’s success reopens debate over who should pay for rising internet traffic
Demand for capacity grows on back of hit Netflix shows, online games and moreThe breakout success of the Korean drama Squid Game has prompted a local broadband provider to launch legal action to force the maker, Netflix, to help pay for the huge surge …
Will October again be memorable for wrong reasons as economic risks build? | Larry Elliott
Bad things happen in this month and, as IMF prepares for annual meeting, signs of a crisis loomBad things happen in October. It was in this month 13 years ago that the global banking system came close to imploding. There was a stock market bloodbath in…
The legal mind behind America’s most extreme abortion law
Former Texas solicitor general Jonathan F Mitchell’s ‘dangerous’ legal strategy lets legislators pass laws that thwart the judiciaryAt the center of the extreme Texas law that bans nearly all abortion care in the second largest state in the US lies a n…
‘Buckxit’: plan to split ritzy Buckhead from Atlanta faces expensive hurdles
Affluent suburb bids to become its own city to reduce taxes and crime – but critics say proposal would mean ‘a race to the bottom’A controversial plan to split Buckhead, an upscale district of Atlanta, from the Georgia city faces a number of expensive …
Hollywood grifter: the actor who took Tinseltown for a Ponzi scheme ride
Zachary Horwitz ran a five-year scam that defrauded wealthy investors of at least $227m by claiming to be in licensing deals with Netflix and HBOIt’s a tale about a Hollywood grifter that reads like an outlandish movie script. But this real-life story …
Supreme court, Facebook, Fed: three horsemen of democracy’s apocalypse | Robert Reich
These unaccountable bodies hold increasing sway over US government. Their abuses of power affect us allThe week’s news has been dominated by the supreme court, whose term began on Monday; the Federal Reserve, and whether it will start responding to inf…