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Asylum seekers who work in the UK without permission should be placed “on the next plane home”, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has said. Ms Badenoch and her shadow home secretary Chris Philp criticised the UK as being a “soft touch” and that illegal working acts as a “pull factor” for those making the dangerous journey…
To say that DeAndre Cole inherited a difficult challenge when he became the boysβ basketball coach at Compton Centennial this season would be an understatement. The team went 1-23 last season and had a streak of seven consecutive losing seasons since finishing 13-13 in 2017-2018. βThe expectation was to bring the winning culture, to bring…
The worldβs largest money manager will use President Trumpβs state visit to the UK next week to unveil a Β£500m plan to invest in UK data centres, one of the fastest-growing areas of global infrastructure spending. Sky News has learnt that BlackRock plans to announce a joint venture with Digital Gravity Partners, a digital infrastructure…
TikTok has finalized a deal with Oracle and two other investors that will allow the popular social video platform to continue its business in the U.S. The deal, expected to close on Jan. 22, will be 50% held by a new investor consortium that includes tech giant Oracle, Silver Lake and MGX, a technology fund…
We used to have more films like βMidwinter Break,β in which the combination of a couple of great actors, a gifted writer and the unfussy shepherding of a thorny, intimate scenario gave discerning moviegoers their recommended weekly allowance of adult drama about the human condition. Thatβs no longer the case, so you would be forgiven…
For a prime minister who has perhaps had his hardest two weeks in office, Donald Trump became the unlikely elixir of a tough political run. It’s not a sentence I imagined writing in the run-up to this state visit – particularly when the UK ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson, was sacked from his post…
At a school with the rich athletic tradition of Santa Ana Mater Dei, it is rare to be the first to achieve anything, but Matteo Huarte made history Saturday by becoming the Monarchsβ only CIF singles champion at the Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. After losing in straight sets to Rishvanth Krishna from Irvine University in…
It sometimes happens that when a celebrity dies, some of their stuff β whatever their survivors have not been left or absconded with β might be auctioned off. Objects that famous people have touched are, of course, magic. Larry King was known for wearing suspenders. This pair is up for auction. (Julienβs Auctions) Such a…
Remember when snack choices fueled the most contentious debates around Super Bowl halftime? Cheetos versus Doritos. Hot wings versus garlic knots. And who the hell brought carrot sticks?! Now Turning Point USA, the far-right organization founded by slain MAGA activist Charlie Kirk, has presented its followers with more tough choices: Who should play at Super…
Former President Obama and Michelle Obama called on Americans to recognize the dangers of the increasingly violent Immigration and Customs Enforcement crack-downs in the wake of the deadly shooting of an ICU nurse in Minneapolis. βThe killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy,β the Obamas wrote in a lengthy statement posted on social media….
