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Chelsea chairman Todd Boehly is to leave the role after selling his ownership stake in the club.

The US House has overwhelmingly passed the Ratepayer Protection Act, a bill designed to prevent households from bearing the cost of new electricity infrastructure built to serve data centres. The measure, introduced by Republican representative Gabe Evans of Colorado, cleared the chamber by 417 votes to three on Wednesday. It was fast-tracked by House Republican leaders under a procedure requiring a two-thirds majority and will now go to the Senate. The legislation would encourage state agencies that regulate utility companies to set rules requiring “large-load customers”, including major data centres, to pay for the cost of new electricity generation needed…

Australia’s Intergenerational Report will test whether the country can deliver stronger productivity and control rising debt as Treasurer Jim Chalmers sets out Treasury’s long-term projections on Monday. The seventh report will examine Australia’s economic and fiscal position through to 2066. Although such forecasts are not predictions of the future, they are intended to show how decisions taken today could affect successive generations. At the centre of the report will be Treasury’s assumption about productivity growth – the rate at which the economy produces more value for each hour worked. The figure is crucial because weaker productivity would reduce projected incomes,…

A Russia sanctions bill aimed at increasing pressure on Moscow has cleared the US House of Representatives and is being sent to President Donald Trump’s desk after a 262-159 vote. The legislation targets Russian officials, companies and financial institutions accused of helping sustain the war in Ukraine. It is intended to increase pressure on the Russian economy and encourage President Vladimir Putin to end the conflict. The measure also gives the president authority to impose tariffs on countries that import Russian oil and natural gas, including China and India. That provision drew opposition from Democrats, who warned that it could…

Nancy Pelosi and Mike Pence embraced at a Yale gathering in Washington DC, where the former political rivals were presented with inaugural public service awards for putting country before party. The embrace lasted about 20 seconds, with the former vice-president and former House Speaker holding hands and leaning in to whisper before receiving their honours at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute’s CEO Caucus. Pelosi arrived more than halfway through the event and moved through the room greeting familiar faces before taking the seat beside Pence. The pair had previously sat together behind Donald Trump during his 2020 State of…

Paramount has resumed negotiations with California and Los Angeles officials over a proposed settlement, despite earlier saying it was ending discussions and preparing to leave the state. People directly involved in the talks said the negotiations had returned to a “constructive place”, but remained highly uncertain. One source described the situation as “still in a red zone” and said the next 48 hours would be critical. The discussions are understood to have become tense, with officials having expected Paramount to announce its departure from California. A settlement, if reached, is expected within the next two days; otherwise, the talks are…

An Atlanta high school football coach has been arrested after allegedly punching and shoving an opposing player during a mass confrontation at a game in Georgia. Emardre Brown, a staff member with Therrell High School’s football team, was detained after the clash with Temple High School players at Tiger Stadium in Temple on Friday, September 11. The game, which Temple won 41-6, descended into a fight after a facemask penalty early in the contest. Players and coaches from both teams ran on to the field as the confrontation spread. Coach charged after football game fight Temple police said two students…

A Los Angeles helicopter crash has killed three people, including two members of the KNBC news team, after the aircraft came down while covering a fatal bus accident. Newsreader Colleen Williams confirmed the deaths on air later that night, becoming visibly emotional as she told viewers the station had lost contact with its NewsChopper4 crew. “We’ve been piecing it together here,” she said. “We knew it was a news chopper and we lost contact with our people out there, and we’ve just received the confirmation.” “We’re going to take a couple of minutes to think about that, to process and…

The US House of Representatives has approved a sweeping Russia sanctions bill, clearing the way for it to be sent to President Donald Trump despite Democratic concerns that it would expand his power to impose tariffs. The measure passed by 262 votes to 159 on Wednesday, the final day the House is sitting before lawmakers leave Washington until after Election Day. Fifty-eight Democrats supported it, while seven Republicans voted against it. The Senate approved the legislation with overwhelming bipartisan backing in August, following more than a year of negotiations led by the late Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. The…

Earl Spencer has claimed that King Charles told him Princess Diana would soon be forgotten, during an angry dispute over whether her young sons should walk behind her coffin at her funeral in 1997. The allegation appears in Swan Song: Diana, My Sister, a memoir by Diana’s younger brother, which recounts the events surrounding her death and funeral. Buckingham Palace responded with an unusual statement, saying the King was mindful that “the pain of fraternal grief can cloud reason, affect judgment and colour memory in ways others do not recognise, even many years after such a loss”. The Palace said…