Politics

“We’re not going to back down”: tiny Portland B&B stands up to Airbnb’s legal bid to ‘monopolise’ letters ‘bnb’

Three little letters - bnb-side’s name is a play on the local b-side arts festival, but Silicon Valley colossus sees threat to global brand

The US right still paints Muslims as the ‘enemy’. But they are fighting for a brighter future for Americans

Progressive politicians such as Zohran Mamdani offer answers to the bitter post-9/11 legacy of failures at home and abroad

Monarchs, MPs and merchants: the register laying bare Britain's slave-trading past

Exclusive: New research identifies thousands who profited from trafficking enslaved Africans and traces some financial links to institutions still operating today

What is the Register of British Slave Traders and who does it identify?

Three years of research has uncovered 13,000 people who invested in Britain’s trafficking of enslaved Africans

Taking Down the Confederate Flag Is Not Woke

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Rise in abuse of election candidates is ‘changing politics’ in England

Electoral Commission finds abuse, particularly of women, minority ethnic and disabled people, is affecting candidates’ behaviour

The desecration of DC: from a giant arch to a nuke-proof bunker, Trump’s legacy-building blingfest is an architectural atrocity

A bloated ballroom, a six-storey military HQ, a helipad-cum-cocktail patio, a gilded angel on a giant arch honouring himself … our architecture critic deplores the decorator-in-chief’s mutilation of Washington

The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd review

Toronto film festival: Tim Blake Nelson writes and directs a challenging, and unsettling, look at empathy and forgiveness that strikes a haunting note

U.S. airman shot down in Iran recounts rescue mission: 'God is good'

A United States airman who was shot down over Iran while manning an F-15 fighter jet in the spring recounted the moment he free-fell to the ground over enemy territory and the subsequent rescue mission that saved him for the first time on Sunday.

Trump says U.S. may keep Iranian oil 'like Venezuela' as Gulf-Iran Hormuz talks stall

Trump said revenue from the Venezuela arrangement has "paid for the war many times."

Ukraine war briefing: Poland calls for ‘double’ support to Kyiv after Russian train attack

Polish minister denounces ‘escalation’ after strike near border with UK’s Boris Johnson and ex-CIA chief David Petraeus nearby. What we know on day 1,664

CNBC Daily Open: Peace talks amid pipeline shocks

Statements from the BRICS summit over the weekend had a common thread: Nations want peace in the Middle East.