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The federal agency tasked with studying ways to improve America’s outstandingly poor healthcare system is “on the brink,” experts warn. The Trump administration has cut its staff by 75 percent, canceled its grants en masse, and is refusing to spend tens of millions of dollars appropriated by Congress. Whether the agency “will survive the second Trump administration is an open question,” health policy experts Aaron Carroll and David Atkins wrote in an opinion piece published today in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The agency in question is the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which has focused on ways…

Burnham said: “No-one should have to bed down in a doorway or outside a station. But we’ve seen it for so long that it feels like Westminster has started to accept it. I won’t accept it.”The prime minister said he wanted to build on the success of Everyone In, a Covid pandemic-era scheme that saw thousands of rough sleepers housed in hotels and temporary accommodation.About 37,000 people were helped by the scheme following its launch in March 2020. The charity Shelter found that about a quarter of them had found settled accommodation, in the form of housing lasting at least…

Sam Altman, CEO and co-founder of OpenAI, speaks to members of the media on the Senate Subway while heading to a meeting at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, July 29, 2026.Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesOpenAI on Tuesday announced ChatGPT for Teens, a dedicated chatbot experience for users under 18 that the company said is designed to include “stronger built-in safety protections.” ChatGPT for Teens builds on several features that OpenAI has launched over the last year, including Study Mode, which aims to help students work through problems step-by-step, as well as age prediction and a number of parental controls. The…

Andy Burnham has registered accepting £345,000 of donations over the past year including £164,347 from businessman Lord Sainsbury. The donations, listed in the most recent version of the MPs’ register of interests,, external are the prime minister’s first declarations since he was elected to Parliament in June. Separately, Burnham has also listed hospitality and gifts he received in the year before he returned to Parliament, including trips to Glastonbury, Lancashire Cricket Club and the Aintree Racecourse.A Labour Party spokesperson said: “It’s right that political campaigns are funded by the generous support of party donors, rather than via the public purse.”All…

SpaceX’s most recent Starship test flight may have ended July 24, but its mission isn’t over yet. The spacecraft splashed down in the Indian Ocean intact after flying halfway around the world from SpaceX’s launch base in South Texas. Engineers expected the ship’s life to end with a fiery disintegration after toppling over, just as past Starships have done following splashdown. Numerous onboard sensors and cameras, along with buoys and drones in position at the splashdown zone, have provided important data for SpaceX to assess the performance of the ship’s heat shield after each test flight, so officials accepted the…

The American flag flies behind a Wall Street sign near the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City on April 22, 2026. Angela Weiss | Afp | Getty ImagesU.S. and European stocks are scaling record highs as investors pile into the AI boom, but economists at the European Central Bank warn that history points to a sharp downturn ahead.”Economic research on past technological revolutions points to a worrisome conclusion: a correction of current stock market valuations is likely,” the economists wrote in a Monday blog, citing two potential scenarios. A correction could occur because “overconfident, overoptimistic investors” push…

U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska, during a debate against her Republican opponent in the 2024 general election, Nick Begich, at the Alaska Oil and Gas Association’s annual conference in Anchorage, Aug. 28, 2024.Ellen Schmidt | Las Vegas Review-Journal | Tribune News Service | Getty ImagesPrimary election season continues Tuesday as voters in Alaska, Florida and Wyoming head to the polls to choose their party’s candidates for November’s midterm elections, which are less than three months away. The November midterms will determine control of Congress for the remainder of President Donald Trump’s term. If Democrats, who are ahead in the polls,…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Damascus and Ankara strongly condemned Israeli air strikes on the Abu al-Duhur military air base in north-western Syria on Tuesday, calling it a “violation” of the country’s sovereignty.Tom Barrack, US ambassador to Turkey and President Donald Trump’s envoy for Syria, also criticised the attacks, saying Washington was “deeply concerned” that what he described as “confirmed Israeli air strikes” were “an unnecessary escalation that does not advance regional stability”.The Israeli military declined to comment.Eight strikes hit the runway and storage facilities at Abu…

For the fourth time in four years, Peacock has raised its prices. The Select plan, which has ads and doesn’t include sports, movies, or Peacock originals, went from $8/month to $9/month. The monthly fee for the standard ad plan (Premium) went from $11/month to $13/month, and the ad-free plan (Premium Plus) went from $17/month to $20/month. Annual pricing, as previously, offers 12 months for the price of 10 months. Peacock’s previous price hike was in July 2025, when the middle tier (with ads) went from $8/month to $11/month, and the ad-free plan increased from $14 to $17. Peacock also raised…

Reform UK has suspended prominent former Conservative Tim Montgomerie after he criticised senior party figures, including Nigel Farage, in media interviews.Montgomerie, who defected to Reform 18 months ago after a long career as a Tory adviser and commentator, has said he plans to appeal against the suspension.On Friday, Montgomerie told the BBC he was frustrated at Farage’s “aggrieved” tone after the Clacton by-election – and on Monday he told The Spectator podcast, external that Reform’s home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf was not a “team player”.Reform said he had been suspended “in line with party rules” after public criticism of the…