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The Conservatives will abolish stamp duty if they win the next election, Kemi Badenoch has announced. Speaking to the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, the Tory leader described stamp duty – the tax paid when a new home is purchased – as a “bad tax” and an “unconservative tax”. She said she had looked at…
The London-listed trading and investing platform IG Group has broken ranks with industry rivals by backing Rachel Reeves’s plans to overhaul Britain’s most popular savings product. Sky News has seen a letter from Michael Healy, the UK managing director of IG Group, in which he argues that cash ISAs “have become too popular relative to…
TORONTOΒ βΒ As Shohei Ohtani leads a wave of international baseball popularity, major league officials are working with the playersβ union and LA28 officials to conclude an agreement for major league players to participate in the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The concepts on the table include an extended Olympic break during the 2028 season, which could include…
MinneapolisΒ βΒ Key Republicans in the Trump administration are retreating from their blanket defense of Border Patrol agents who fatally shot a U.S. citizen Saturday on a Minneapolis street, part of a larger effort by the White House to turn down the temperature after the killing provoked widespread outrage. But it remains unclear whether the tamping down…
[Update: At of 8:42 p.m., the festival advised via its mobile app that Stagecoach will resume momentarily. βWe are working to open doors and prep the site for your safety,β the alert said. Just before 9p.m. the gates were reopened. Stagecoach updated its schedule for Saturday night after a temporary evacuation due to high winds….
After Contrerasβ offensive coordinator, Carlos Trujillo, did his work on Friday night during his teamβs 39-14 win over Hollywood, he was picked up by car and whisked off to Los Angeles International Airport to take a red-eye flight to Chicago so he could complete the 11th marathon of his life. βI will never be crazy…
The box office hit a power-up this weekend, as βThe Super Mario Galaxy Movieβ continued a healthy streak for family films in theaters. The animated sequel from Universal Pictures, Nintendo and Illumination raced to $190 million in the U.S. and Canada in its five-day holiday weekend debut, placing it solidly in first place, according to…
Instacart says its ending its controversial system of using AI price tests for retailers. Earlier this month, an investigation by Consumer Reports and progressive think tank Groundwork Collaborative found that Instacart’s algorithmic pricing charged various prices for the same item from the same store. Jo Ling Kent reports.
On a wide, empty stretch of Venice Beach in 1980, seven Los Angeles architects β Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Eric Owen Moss, Coy Howard, Craig Hodgetts, Robert Mangurian and Frederick Fisher β gathered for a group portrait by photographer Ave Pildas. Clad in mismatched outfits and standing casually in the sand, they looked more like…
The process of making 30 billion tons of concrete every year produces more carbon pollution than all the world’s ships and planes put together. Now, the North Carolina and Denmark-based Biomason is using biotechnology, including naturally-occurring microbes, to create “biocement” that’s just as sturdy but emits much less CO2. David Pogue reports.
