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The US justice department has confirmed it will investigate paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged links to major banks and several prominent Democrats, including former President Bill Clinton.President Donald Trump on Friday said he would ask Attorney General Pam Bondi and the FBI to look into Epstein’s “involvement and relationship” with Clinton and others “to determine what was going on with them, and him”.Bondi then said on social media that she asked US Attorney Jay Clayton to lead an investigation, adding the department “will pursue this with urgency and integrity to deliver answers to the American people”. Clinton has strongly denied…

TotalEnergies chief executive Patrick Pouyanné backed the scenario of a potential extended life for fossil fuels in the energy system, speaking at the sidelines of the UN COP30 climate summit in Belém, where he is one of the rare top business leaders to attend.The French businessman said the latest update to the International Energy Agency outlook — which outlined a scenario under which global oil and gas demand could rise for the next 25 years if governments did not make any policy progress — was realistic.“Me, to progress, I need to look at reality,” he said, adding that the point…

A leading artificial intelligence company claims to have stopped a China-backed “cyber espionage” campaign that was able to infiltrate financial firms and government agencies with almost no human oversight.The US-based Anthropic said its coding tool, Claude Code, was “manipulated” by a Chinese state-sponsored group to attack 30 entities around the world in September, achieving a “handful of successful intrusions”.This was a “significant escalation” from previous AI-enabled attacks it monitored, it wrote in a blogpost on Thursday, because Claude acted largely independently: 80 to 90% of the operations involved in the attack were performed without a human in the loop.“The actor…

Nick TriggleHealth correspondentWatch: Doctors’ strike ‘completely irresponsible’ says health secretaryDoctors going on strike again over pay is “inflicting pain and misery” on patients, says Health Secretary Wes Streeting. “We could do without this reckless action,” he said, adding it could harm patients.The five-day walkout in England by resident doctors, the new name for junior doctors, runs until 07:00 GMT on Wednesday.The doctors’ union – the British Medical Association (BMA) – says they are still not paid enough and there are too few training places or jobs.The NHS says nearly all services will keep running, and patients should attend appointments unless…

Seth Meyers spoke about rising tensions within the Republican party with Donald Trump losing support from his base over the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.The Late Night host spoke about yesterday’s dramatic meeting in the situation room to discuss Epstein, an ongoing crisis that has seen the president becoming “wildly unpopular”.Meyers said that Trump is “by all the accounts the most unpopular president of all time” and up until this point has only been “able to hang on to power because he has a tight grip on the Republican party no matter what he did or how bad things got”.But a new…

The New Orleans Saints are on pace for one of their worst seasons since the turn of the century. At 2-8, they’re tied with the New York Giants for the lowest win percentage in the NFC and they will almost certainly miss out on the NFL playoffs for a fifth consecutive season — the franchise’s longest streak without a postseason appearance since 2001-05. This time, it doesn’t seem as if a coach like Sean Payton and a quarterback like Drew Brees will materialize to save the Saints. Given the continued struggles, general manager Mickey Loomis — the man responsible for hiring…

In the third series of the hit TV show The White Lotus, the entitled North Carolina housewife Victoria Ratliff is often shown reaching for her lorazepam. Now researchers say internet searches for the anti-anxiety drug surged after the show’s release.Lorazepam, also known by its brand name Ativan, is a type of drug known as a benzodiazepine, or “benzo”. It is thought to work by boosting the effect of a neurotransmitter called gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in the brain.Researchers in the US say the name-dropping of lorazepam on The White Lotus has fuelled a rise in interest around the drug and how…

The overlooks, which offer sweeping views of the Rocky Mountain range, gave us a sense of the vastness of the park.I gripped the steering wheel tightly as we ascended the mountain and snaked around a cliff with a hair-raising twist.“Don’t look down,” I told myself, as I contemplated the steep drop below.But the view, with towering mountain peaks and deep gorges, was too jaw-dropping to ignore.We were on the iconic Trail Ridge Road, which stretches from Estes Park to Grand Lake through the heart of Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado.The 48-mile drive was not designed for the cowardly. With sharp…

Biomedical engineer Rachel Lance says British scientists submitted themselves to experiments that would be considered unethical today. Her book is Chamber Divers. Originally broadcast April, 10 2024.

Global markets have fallen after a tech sell-off that fuelled Wall Street’s worst day in a month and weak economic data from China showed an unprecedented slump in investment.US markets came under fresh pressure on Friday, with the tech-focused Nasdaq Composite falling by as much as 1.8% in New York before pulling back. The benchmark S&P 500 fell 0.7%, while the Dow Jones industrial average declined 1%.The FTSE 100 fell by 1.4% in London, losing about 100 points, as bellwether banking stocks tumbled. Barclays, Lloyds and NatWest slumped by between 3% and 3.5%.The fall left the blue-chip FTSE 100 at…