This article is the result of a collaboration with The Sunday Times. You can find their corresponding piece here . Daniel and Christy Kinahan at a Dubai sports arena last June. Source: WeCaptureYou, …
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Democratic lawmakers introduced federal legislation Thursday that would ban defense contractors and government-owned plants from selling high-caliber ammunition to civilians. Sens. Elizabeth Warren …
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Daily Mail amends electric car story after Yougov poll showed public could have been misled
Man using smartphone app while standing next to his electric car charging. Picture: Shutterstock/Sergii Kozii Polling on whether the public had been misled by a Daily Mail story forced press …
Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner. Picture: Robert Downs/INMA German newspaper group Axel Springer has agreed a deal to buy The Telegraph for £575m in cash. The deal trumps a previous agreement …
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News diary 9-15 March: MPs vote on child social media limits, UN Security Council discusses Iran sanctions, Oscars
Oscar winners holding their awards in the photo room at the 89th Annual Academy Awards at Dolby Theatre, Los Angeles. Picture: Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock On Monday, MPs are set to vote on …
Reach chief executive Piers North. Picture: Reach Reach has not been overly reliant on Google Discover but took “advantage of opportunities as they come”, chief executive Piers North said after …
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News Corp CEO Robert Thomson warns AI companies scraping without paying: ‘We’re coming for you’
Robert Thomson. Picture: News UK News Corp CEO Robert Thomson has warned AI companies scraping the publisher’s websites without paying that “if you’re stealing our stuff we are going to sue you”. …
Top four media companies in UK by revenue. RELX Group (picture: Igor Golovniov, Shutterstock), BBC (Chris Dorney, Shutterstock), Informa (Igor Golovniov/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images), ITV …
US President Donald Trump said on January 2 that the US was “locked and loaded and ready to go”. Trump was talking aloud about intervening in Iran if it continued a violent crackdown on demonstrators …
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Using Bellingcat’s New Open Source Tool to Explore Historical and Spatial Flight Data
Flight tracking data is an important tool in open source research, but with 100,000 daily flights , it can be difficult to contextualise what a particular aircraft’s movements indicate. Bellingcat has …
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Advocacy group files formal grievance claiming World Bank ‘failed’ to address harm caused by controversial Tanzanian project
Villagers in Tanzania have filed a formal grievance with the World Bank, claiming the bank still hasn’t provided adequate redress for loss of livelihoods and alleged human-rights abuses stemming from …
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IRS criminal referrals against big corporations and ultrawealthy plummeted during Trump’s first year
Dodging taxes got less risky for the ultrarich and corporations after Donald Trump returned to the White House last year. During the new administration’s first year , the U.S. Internal Revenue Service …
A story Prince Harry claims was illegally hacked by the Daily Mail in fact came entirely legitimately via a royal family press officer, according to Daily Mail royal editor Rebecca English. Another …
October 20th 2018: Paul Conroy attends ‘A Private War’ Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival at Cineworld Leicester Square, UK. Picture: Tom Rose/Shutterstock War photographer Paul Conroy, …
Perplexity response to question about original Wall Street Journal reporting (query posed on 2 March 2026, sources no longer include Wall Street Journal) Perplexity has accused Dow Jones and the New …
Three screenshots depicting Reach plc stories on Google Discover on desktop in late 2024 (before AI summaries started to be added). Major cost cuts at Reach helped keep profits up in 2025 despite …
GB News title screen in January 2026 proclaiming the broadcaster is ‘Britain’s number one’, plus Camilla Tominey hosting GB News show on 11 January 2026 Right-leaning news broadcaster GB News grew …
Telegraph school fees article The Telegraph has refused to tell press regulator IPSO how an article about a made-up banker supposedly impacted by school fee increases came to be published. The …
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“Bombs will fall Everywhere”: The American, Israeli and Iranian Weapons Being Deployed in Middle East
The United States and Israel launched an attack on Iran on Saturday morning, killing Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as well as several senior regime figures and striking multiple sites across …
Mediahuis head of AI strategy Ana Jakimovska speaking at the FT Strategies News in the Digital Age event in London on 12 February 2026. Picture: FT Strategies Belgium-based news publisher Mediahuis …
The Minnesota Star Tribune homepage showing news on ICE crackdown on 11 February 2026. Picture: The Minnesota Star Tribune The Minnesota Star Tribune saw triple-digit month-on-month growth in visits …
Stephen Wright interviewing member of notorious Latin Kings mob, who help Albanian gangs supply cocaine to Europe Former Daily Mail crime editor Stephen Wright has said he was “devastated” by …
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Top 50 English-language news sites in the world: Substack leads YoY growth for seventh months as most down in January
The sites with the biggest year-on-year growth in visits in January: Substack (Photo For Everything/Shutterstock), The Hill and Al Jazeera (both homepages on 11 February 2026) Just seven of the 50 …
Irish Times editor Ruadhán Mac Cormaic in the newsroom. Picture: Irish Times Revenue generated by subscribers to The Irish Times is now fully funding its journalism for the first time. That milestone …