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The backgrounds of Angela Rayner and Sir Laurie Magnus – the sleaze watchdog who holds her fate in his hands – couldn’t be more different. Labour’s “Red Queen” is a working-class council house girl who got pregnant at 16. He’s an old Etonian “quango king”, a City grandee and a pillar of the establishment. He’s…
A look at this weekβs top high school football games in the Southland. FRIDAY Baltimore St. Frances (1-0) at St. John Bosco (2-0), 7 p.m. Two nationally ranked powerhouses meet to keep their mythical national championship hopes alive. St. John Bosco coach Jason Negro said St. Frances has as much talent as any team in…
The head of Britain’s main banking lobby group has warned the chancellor against a budget raid on the industry, arguing that it would undermine her aim of delivering sustainable economic growth. In a letter to Rachel Reeves seen by Sky News, David Postings, the chief executive of UK Finance, said renewed speculation about increases to…
The Southern California grocery brand that has become synonymous with luxury and wellness is taking its first steps into New York City. Erewhon said it plans to open a tonic bar within an exclusive West Village membersβ club later this fall. The tonic bar will serve members at Kith Ivy, a lifestyle and fitness club…
Two major digital platforms β YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV β have agreed to carry C-SPAN two months after the nonprofit organization made a public plea for wider distribution. Changing industry economics have taken a toll on C-SPAN, prompting the U.S. Senate to urge streaming companies to begin offering customers the privately funded…
The leader of Britain’s trade unions has urged Labour to fight Reform UK by hitting millionaires, banks and gambling with higher taxes. Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC, has published an opinion poll of 5,000 adults. He says the results suggest a significant number of Labour voters are leaning to Reform. His call comes…
PITTSBURGHΒ βΒ It was a pivotal moment, in a pivotal game, in whatβs become a pivotal week for the Dodgers in the National League West standings. Which, rather predictably given their recently floundering form, meant they found a new way to mess it all up. In the top of the second inning on Wednesday night at PNC…
Beauty chain Lush has shut its UK shops, website and factories in protest at the Israeli government “preventing urgent humanitarian assistance from entering Gaza”. In a statement, the firm said more action was also needed by the British government “to bring an immediate stop to the death and destruction, including an end to arms sales…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ U.S. and Mexican officials agreed Wednesday to bolster cooperation on joint security concerns, including drug smuggling, illegal migration and arms trafficking, as Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Trumpβs controversial decision to order an attack on an alleged smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea. The top U.S. diplomat held his first meeting with…
Montell Jordan, the son of South L.A. who shot to fame in 1995 with the hit βThis Is How We Do It,β says his prostate cancer has returned despite having a radical prostatectomy last year. βWe thought [the cancer] was all confined, isolated to the prostate,β he said Wednesday on βToday.β βApparently, that was not…
