Monthly Archives: January 2017

The Mormon church owns vast tracts of US land, and now envisages a huge new city on its Deseret Ranch but at what cost? Everything about the biggest landowners in the state: the Mormon church. On an overcast weekday afternoon, Mormon missionaries give tours of the vast estate. Fields, orange trees and grazing animals stretch […]

Image caption The abandoned man in hospital Police trawled through CCTV, launched an appeal through the press appeal, contacted the national crime agency and Interpol. Image caption Amanda Bow with Roger in the nursing home One afternoon in March 2016 I visited Roger at the nursing home. He looked content, even though he was clearly […]

Washington (CNN)US law-enforcement agencies are at risk of being spied on and hacked because some of their field offices are located in foreign-owned buildings without even knowing it, according to a new government report. The report by the Government Accountability Office, which was obtained by CNN and is due to be released later Monday,reveals that […]

(CNN)Just how much luxury is enough? In the world of top-notch ski chalets, five-star opulence is just the starting point. There’s the standard, run-of-the mill luxury — and then there’s Chalet Zermatt Peak. If jaws haven’t already dropped at the floor-to-ceiling views of the Matterhorn from the living area, they will at the walnut floors, […]

Trials begin on Monday in Washington state after actions intended to shut down oil sands pipelines, in solidarity with Standing Rock Sioux tribes efforts Climate change activists and film-makers who documented their anti-pipeline demonstrations are facing criminal charges and hefty prison sentences, with cases across the US that have raised concerns about press intimidation and […]

Alison Mills, and John Cartwright were also convicted for their parts in the conspiracy while one other defendant, Jonathan Cohen, was acquitted. Scourfield had been convicted after pleading guilty at an earlier trial last year. The five newly convicted people will be sentenced on Thursday. HBOS: A highly unusual case The CPS special prosecutor, Stephen […]

My Iraqi father embraced Britishness with the zeal of a convert. I devoted my career to undermining fundamentalism. Am I really to be barred from the US? Every year my colleagues and I gather in the Gates Foundations global headquarters in Seattle for our annual employee meeting. Its a lot of fun, as it brings […]

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump is expected to attend his private club’s flagship charity gala on Saturday, sources familiar with his plans said, making his first southern getaway from the White House since taking office. Trump plans to attend the International Red Cross Ball at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, an annual bash that […]

Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time! Although Ida Marie De Los Santos was eliminated on the first episode of Nick Viall‘s season of The Bachelor, the 23-year-old is finding other ways to stay in the spotlight! Related:

While Donald Trump certainly had a momentous first full week on the job, none of it really should have been all that surprising. Plenty of people were downright outraged by his first actions as president, but few should have been as shocked as they seemed to be. Its finally sinking in, to put this slightly […]