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In betting parlance, it’s called a ‘catching a heater,’ when a table goes from cold to hot. Craps players live for it. Blackjack players wait for, and investors pray for it. Las Vagas sand could be the answer to those prayers.Although named after the Nevada gaming mecca, Las Vegas Sands has largely depended on the Asia/Macau story of the last decade. When Macau banned junket-extended VIP credit in the fourth quarter of 2021, the high-roller segment that once dominated headlines collapsed. While casinos have long been known to court VIPs, margins on them weren’t generally as high, whether due to…
Two days after the Supreme Court temporarily allowed President Donald Trump’s mail-in voting order to proceed on the grounds that states had sued too soon, Democratic-led states returned to court Wednesday — this time challenging the finalized U.S. Postal Service rule implementing it.The new lawsuit, filed by 23 states, Washington, D.C., and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, seeks to block requirements that election officials provide information on mail voters to USPS and use federally reviewed, uniquely barcoded ballot envelopes.The Postal Service cannot implement the rule for the Nov. 3 midterm election because of a separate nationwide injunction that was…
A portrait of Ann Widdecombe has been erected in Parliament to remember the former MP, who was found dead with serious head injuries last month.The picture of the ex-Conservative minister was put up on Tuesday in Portcullis House, where many MPs’ offices are located, in time for the return from summer recess next week.It forms part of ongoing talks about a fitting memorial for the minister turned Reform UK spokeswoman, who died aged 78 after being found in her Devon home. Joshua Kerry, 28, has been charged with murder.Helen Grant, Widdecombe’s successor as MP for the area of Maidstone in…
The Federal Reserve, the U.S. Senate, the Department of Justice, NASA, and other federal agencies were victims of computer intrusions by a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group, the DOJ said on Wednesday morning as it announced the court-ordered seizure of online domains used for hacking platforms.The hacking platforms, known as “QScan” and “QTRouter,” were “used to target U.S. critical infrastructure and other sensitive networks,” the DOJ said in a statement.”Other targeted networks include those operated by hospitals, telecommunications providers, power companies, financial institutions, and defense contractors,” a court filing said. Other federal agencies that were victims of computer intrusion by the…
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People on hold to HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) for more than 30 minutes would get £30 off their tax bill under a Reform UK government, Robert Jenrick has announced.Reform’s economy spokesman said HMRC’s treatment of taxpayers was “offensive to working people” and his party would tie the pay of senior HMRC officials to customer service targets.To prevent abuse, the tax credit for phone delays would be limited to two occasions in a given tax year, Jenrick said.HMRC has said it has improved its response times since a highly critical report by a committee of MPs, external, in January 2025,…
Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded Elon Musk one of Ukraine’s highest state honours, as Kyiv tries to secure the tech billionaire’s consent to use Starlink-equipped drones for strikes deep inside Russia.In a decree issued on Wednesday, Zelenskyy conferred Musk the Order of Freedom for “outstanding personal contributions to the protection of human life and freedom, and to the development of relations between the peoples of Ukraine and the United States of America”.The decision comes as Kyiv and Washington have been at odds…
Los Angeles Dodgers chairman Mark Walter during a press conference at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, March 25, 2026.Keith Birmingham | MediaNews Group | Pasadena Star-News | Getty ImagesMark Walter’s TWG Global, in an extraordinary statement Wednesday morning, blasted what it called “multipronged attacks” against the holding company and its subsidiaries, and said “despite what has been reported, there has been no fraud” at those companies.TWG also said it “is not looking to sell its sports assets at ‘fire sale’ prices to raise capital for its insurance operations.” The statement came amid a flurry of media reports about Walter’s empire…
Throughout the 20-year US military presence in Afghanistan, Taliban insurgents knew there would be a time limit. As they put it: “You have the clocks, but we have the time.” American technological dominance on the battlefield would be no match, they believed, for Washington’s ability to get distracted.Two trillion dollars and 20 years, it turned out, were the extent of the US commitment to Afghanistan, which ended chaotically in 2021. Now, it is Russia, stalemated in Ukraine, that is counting on the west’s attention-deficient foreign policy: We Shall Outlast Them — the title of a new book by Hanna Notte,…
“Ironing board” seats on some commuter trains will get extra cushioning, the transport secretary has said, more than a decade after the government spent £1.6bn of public money building the fleet.Heidi Alexander announced that more than 60,000 seats on all 115 Thameslink trains would get new cushions and backrests, replacing much-criticised thin and hard seats.She said the work, set to begin in 2027 and last two years, was “public ownership of our railways in action” as part of the new Great British Railways programme.However, some have criticised how the Department for Transport (DfT) awarded a £1.6bn contract for the trains…