Edward Johnson

(NewsNation) — China plans to pay drivers almost $1,400 to replace their old cars with new energy-efficient ones after the country’s electric vehicle sales slowed to start the year. Consumers can receive up to 10,000 yuan, roughly $1,380, depending on the type of car they replace, China’s Ministry of Commerce and other departments said in … Read more

The listed family home where Captain Sir Tom Moore walked laps of his garden to raise millions of pounds for the NHS during the Covid pandemic has gone on sale for £2.25m. The sight of the 99-year-old war veteran walking lengths of his garden, aided by a walking frame, charmed Britain in lockdown and raised … Read more

(NewsNation) — One of the world’s largest consulting firms is under a Department of Justice investigation for its role in advising companies on how to promote opioids. The criminal investigation into McKinsey & Company was years in the making and the prosecutors are examining advice given to pharmaceutical companies on how to market the highly … Read more

The Cambridge-based cybersecurity and artificial intelligence company Darktrace is likely to become the latest British technology champion to be swallowed up by a US suitor, after it agreed a $5.3bn (£4.2bn) sale to US private equity business Thoma Bravo. Darktrace, whose co-founding investor Mike Lynch is now on trial for fraud and conspiracy in the … Read more

The Post Office sought to “hush up” the case of Martin Griffiths, a post office operator who took his own life, by “drip feeding” compensation payments to his widow and lining up a media lawyer to protect its reputation, a public inquiry has heard. Angela van den Bogerd, a former business improvement director at the … Read more

When Victoria Beckham debuted her first collection of just 10 dresses in a luxury hotel suite at the Waldorf Astoria in New York in 2008, she told the sceptical assembly of the world’s most powerful fashion editors that she had “spent a lifetime wanting to do this”. “It’s what I always dreamed of since I … Read more

(NewsNation) — Southwest flyers may be experiencing a change in how the airline handles seating, according to recent comments from the CEO. The airline has cut jobs and exited multiple airports after a first-quarter report showed a more than $200 million loss. Now, the signature seating operation may change. Southwest CEO Bob Jordan, in a … Read more

The GB News investor Sir Paul Marshall is stepping down from the board of the broadcaster after three years, it was announced on Friday. Marshall is expected to be a frontrunner in the race to buy the Telegraph when the auction process reopens, after the government in effect scuppered its planned sale of the newspaper … Read more

The first cargo ship passed through a newly opened deep-water channel in Baltimore after being stuck in the harbor since the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapsed four weeks ago, killing a work crew and halting most maritime traffic through the city’s port. The Balsa 94, a bulk carrier sailing under a Panama flag, passed through … Read more