When Boris Johnson had his breakthrough meeting with then Irish leader Leo Varadkar outside Liverpool in 2019, he had a burning need to strike a Brexit deal and only one major obstacle standing in the way: the Irish border. Faced with either betraying Brexiters in his party, which would have been the end of his leadership, or plunging his country ...

Inch by inch, since the start of the pandemic, the White House has sought to sabotage the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention for the political benefit of President Donald Trump. To an alarming extent, it has succeeded. Once globally recognised as “the best science-based, data-driven agency in the world,” in the words of its current director, the CDC ...

Bloomberg United Airlines Holdings Inc’s pilots agreed to accept lower minimum pay guarantees to prevent almost 4,000 of their members from being put on furlough. The pact with United won 58% support in a vote by union membership, the Air Lines Pilots Association (ALPA) said. The airline had sought to cut costs while avoiding pilot layoffs because of the expense ...