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Nov 11, 2026 - World

A top member of President Donald Trump's Cabinet has abandoned his Washington-area home as a foreign plot targeting U.S. officials intensifies.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has relocated to a military base following Iranian threats against his life, The New York Times reported Tuesday, citing three people familiar with the matter.According to the report, U.S. officials determined in recent weeks that Iran's scheming against current and former American officials had moved into a more advanced phase, a conclusion drawn partly from intelligence about threats to Bessent.Since August, Bessent has steered the Trump administration's push to cut Tehran off from the global economy through harsher sanctions and limits on trade routes. The Times' sources said that work has put him near the top of the list of officials Iran would most like to harm.It's unclear how serious the threats against Bessent are. U.S. officials have acknowledged Iran has limited capacity to pull off large-scale attacks on American soil, but they've treated some targeted plots as credible, including an alleged murder-for-hire scheme against Trump during his 2024 campaign.A Treasury spokesperson told the Times that Bessent "will not be deterred by the Iranian regime's threats" and remains committed to the campaign.Bessent is far from the first senior Trump official to trade a Washington-area home for a military base or other secured housing. At least six did the same last year, among them Stephen Miller, who is now White House chief of staff, and Pam Bondi, who was attorney general at the time. Threats against Bondi reportedly spiked after U.S. forces seized former President Nicolás Maduro in Caracas and flew him to New York to face criminal charges.Bessent's move comes weeks after the U.S. ordered staff across the Middle East onto heightened alert and began shrinking embassy and consulate staffing, citing intelligence that Iran was well along in planning attacks on Americans.

Nov 11, 2026 - World

Tech consultant convicted of second-degree murder in 2023 stabbing death of Cash App founderNima Momeni, the man convicted of murdering Cash App founder Bob Lee, has been sentenced to 16 years to life.Momeni, 42, has been in San Francisco’s county jail since late April of 2023, after he was arrested in connection with the stabbing death of Lee, who had created the mobile payment service and was serving as the chief product officer of the cryptocurrency MobileCoin at the time of his death. Continue reading...

Nov 11, 2026 - World

Trump-appointed judge Jeffrey T Kuntz partially denies British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss over editFederal judge Jeffrey T Kuntz ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC can proceed, denying in part the British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss the case. The president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit stems from the BBC’s splicing together of disparate comments he made before the 6 January US Capitol insurrection, as rendered in a Panorama documentary called Trump: A Second Chance.“Accepting the allegations in the complaint as true, the Court finds Trump plausibly pled damages where Trump alleges a defamatory documentary released toward the election caused reputational harm,” the Trump-appointed Florida district court judge wrote. “It would be difficult for the Court to accept a different framing without completely negating the significance and fragility of political elections.” Continue reading...

Nov 11, 2026 - World

Head of major review into adult social care will say that governments have been ‘asleep at the wheel’ of vital systemSuccessive governments in England have been “asleep at the wheel” on social care, leaving the system to grow as a chaotic patchwork of local services with no clear vision, Louise Casey, the head of the social care commission, is to warn.Lady Casey, who is preparing proposals for a big review of adult social care, will say the result is that in effect “no one is in charge” of a system that provides vital services for millions of vulnerable people. Continue reading...

Nov 10, 2026 - World

Arrests made after three properties were searched in relation to inquiry into late businessmanFrench police have made arrests after raiding three properties, including the Ritz hotel in Paris, in relation to an investigation into sexual abuse and trafficking by Mohamed Al Fayed.Several individuals were taken into custody for questioning last month and later released, according to the Paris public prosecutor’s office. Another property in Paris and one in Saint-Tropez, both with links to Fayed, were also searched in mid-October. Continue reading...