National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby urged the Republican-led House to pass a bipartisan Senate bill providing $ 95bn in aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan. Republicans including former president Donald Trump have blocked the funding because of their opposition to continued US support for Kyiv in its war with Russia.

“We cannot live in a society in which billionaires domiciled abroad have control of social networks and put themselves in a position to violate the rule of law, failing to comply with court orders and threatening our authorities.”

Joe Biden said trillions of dollars of government investments deployed under his watch would restore the “American dream” after decades of failed “trickle-down” politics, in a speech defending his economic record.

The largest US banks would lose $ 541bn in a hypothetical doomsday economic scenario but still have more than enough capital to absorb the losses, according to annual stress tests conducted by the Federal Reserve.

Red Bull, the Austrian energy drinks company that owns the team, has neither published the findings of the investigation into Horner nor revealed the identity of the barrister who led it.

The new rules artificially inflate the cost of investment trusts, which are already factored into trusts’ share prices, said Ben Conway, head of fund management at Hawksmoor Investment Management.

Trafigura has pleaded guilty to charges by US prosecutors of bribery in Brazil and has agreed to pay $ 127mn in fines and forfeited profits, in the latest in a series of corruption cases against the world’s largest commodity trading houses.

The company pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to violate the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to court documents.

Brad Pitt “looted” the Château Miraval vineyard he co-owned with ex-wife Angelina Jolie in Provence, spending millions of dollars on swimming pool renovations and a recording studio, lawyers suing the actor have claimed.

Moscow has accused Kyiv and Ankara of violating the terms of a high-profile prisoner exchange after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned home from a visit to Turkey with a group of Ukrainian commanders.