Peer gave sex offender Jeffrey Epstein access to UK government decision-making while serving in cabinet

New Anthropic legal tool sends shares in companies including S&P Global and Intuit sliding

Spanish lender is latest European giant to make a bid for American retail banking customers

Lawyers say Financial Conduct Authority has reinforced its ability to hold companies to account

Trump expected to sign legislation on Tuesday as fight over funding for Department of Homeland Security looms

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor shared official documents while serving as a UK trade envoy

Wall Street figure and Republican donor offers rare public criticism of perceived administration’s self-dealing

‘I don’t know how we could have repeatedly chosen someone with such poor judgment’

UK government is grappling with unprecedented backlog of 80,000 criminal cases

Science minister Patrick Vallance says Department of Health will fund the extra spending out of its existing budget

History suggests such a venture is particularly prone to value destruction

From Dr Sasi S Senga, Neurosurgical Oncologist; Former Programme Director, Molecular Genetics & Ethics, Stanford University

From Christopher Cooney, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, UK

From James C McGrath, Merion Station, PA, US

From Sharon Footerman, London NW4, UK

From Robert Horster, Senior Fellow, Erasmus University’s Commodity & Trade Centre, Haarlem, The Netherlands

From Ben Kitson, Head of Business Development, Precision Micro, Birmingham, UK

From Sander van ’t Noordende, CEO of global talent company Randstad, Diemen, The Netherlands

Beijing warns Central American country will pay ‘heavy price’ after top court ruled to kick out conglomerate from terminals