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WASHINGTONΒ βΒ Public health experts warned Tuesday that $600 million in cuts to federal public health funding announced by the Trump administration would endanger one of Californiaβs main early-warning systems for HIV outbreaks, leaving communities vulnerable to undetected disease spread. The grant terminations affect funding for a number of disease control programs in California, Colorado, Illinois and…
The jewellery tycoon, alleged to have orchestrated a Β£170m scam which defrauded a legion of wealthy investors, will be declared bankrupt if a bid by his former company’s liquidators is successful. Sky News has learnt that insolvency practitioners in charge of probing the demise of Vashi, a luxury diamond jeweller which had shops in some…
Defense wins championships and Super Bowl LX showed it can get ratings too. NBCβs Sunday telecast of the Seattle Seahawksβ 29-13 win over the New England Patriots averaged 124.9 million viewers according to Nielsen data, falling short of the record of 127.7 million set last year on Fox. Seattleβs smothering defense preventing New England from…
Lord Mandelson would have been subject to a “thorough” and “intimate” vetting process before he was appointed UK ambassador to the US, a former head of MI6 has said. Sir Richard Moore, who left his post last September, told Sky News’ lead world news presenter Yalda Hakim he had not been part of the process,…
When LAFC promoted Marc Dos Santos from assistant coach to manager two months ago, there were some perks that came with the new job. A raise, certainly. A better seat on the team charter. But not as many as you might think. βThe office is a little bit bigger,β he said. βMy parking space is…
Instagram and YouTube have been accused of “engineer[ing] addiction in children’s brains”, in the opening statements of a landmark social media trial taking place in LA. Mark Lanier, representing plaintiffs who accuse social media companies of developing harmful and addictive platforms, described the case as being “as easy as ABC”, which he said stands for…
To say the mood at Ryan Cooglerβs production company Proximity Media has been euphoric would be an understatement. You too would be more than euphoric if your film landed in the yearβs box office top 10 and set the all-time record for most Oscar nominations. But βSinnersβ wasnβt built in a day. Itβs been a…
Sir Keir Starmer will chair a cabinet session today after earning a lifeline from Labour MPs during a crunch meeting in which he declared: “I’m not prepared to walk away.” The prime minister started the week battling the biggest crisis of his premiership amid the fallout from his appointment of Lord Mandelson as his US…
Sen. Bernie Sanders, a political hero among liberals and populists, next week will formally kick off the campaign to place a new tax on billionaires on Californiaβs November ballot. The controversial proposal, which would impose a one-time 5% tax on the assets of the stateβs wealthiest residents, is critical to backfilling federal funding cuts to…
The world’s biggest social media companies face several landmark trials this year that seek to hold them responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. Opening statements in one such trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court began on Monday. Instagram’s parent company Meta and Google’s YouTube face claims that their platforms deliberately addict…
