The $111 billion merger moved closer to completion this week

CNN, MS Now and Politico vow to protect First Amendment rights after reporters’ access withdrawn

Develop and fund a National Disability Hate Strategy, co-produced with Disabled People’s Organisations, to tackle disability hate crime, online abuse, discrimination, public stigma and improve awarene...

The head of MI5 has issued a "call to arms" for the whole of society to treat national security as a shared challenge.

If it is affecting circulation patterns that determine how and where anticyclones form, it could accelerate alarmingly, warns Tim Palmer

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The oil and gas industry has urged Andy Burnham to approve two controversial North Sea developments as a public consultation on the UK's largest undeveloped oil field closes.

Robert Jenrick says current benefits system is ‘a strange perversion of compassion’

Nurses collapsing, builders with heatstroke, bus drivers in cabs that reach 44C. The new PM wanted to spend the summer talking about the cost of living – he should change his plans, says Guardian columnist John Harris

Probation inspector 'anxious' early prisoner release 'will go wrong'

Leavitt said Wednesday she is stepping down at the end of the month to spend more time with her family.

It is now hard to take public transport without having to endure the sound of someone else’s smartphone speaker

University says it has ‘new information’ about academic career of Jason Arday, the youngest black professor in its history Jason Arday, the Cambridge professor accused of plagiarism and embellishment, is to face investigation by the university after what it called “new information” regarding his qualifications and career. Cambridge initially defended Arday – the youngest black professor appointed in the university’s history, with a compelling life story of educational disadvantage – as “the victim of a vile campaign”. But as questions mounted over Arday’s own claims, the university’s leaders felt that Cambridge’s reputation was in danger. Continue reading...

Sixteen- and 17-year-olds face an overnight social media curfew in an extension of the social media ban for under-16s. But the measures will not be mandatory and teenagers can choose to opt out, so will it achieve anything? Annie Kelly speaks to social affairs correspondent Jessica Murray

In the fourth of a series on nationalisation, we look at plans to emulate Manchester’s Bee Network in Britain’s buses and rail

In many small ways, and mostly for the worse