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Paralympian and House of Lords peer Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has said she has been targeted with abusive emails for opposing the assisted dying bill. The crossbench peer said she had been accused of being “responsible for people dying in pain”. She is among those expected to speak in a historic debate on Friday as the…
British Land, the FTSE 250 commercial property company, has hired lawyers to scrutinise rescue deals for the high street retailers Poundland and River Island. Sky News has learnt that Hogan Lovells, the City law firm, has been instructed by British Land to seek further information on restructuring plans that the two chains say are necessary…
WEEK 9 (All games at 7 p.m. unless noted) THURSDAYβS SCHEDULE CITY SECTION East Valley League Arleta at Fulton, 3:30 p.m. Monroe at Grant North Hollywood at Chavez Verdugo Hills at Sun Valley Poly Eastern League Huntington Park at South Gate South East at Legacy Exposition League Marquez at Manual Arts SOUTHERN SECTION 605 League…
A former Miami Heat security officer has pleaded guilty in federal court to a charge in connection to stealing team memorabilia worth millions of dollars and selling the items to online brokers. Retired Miami police officer Marcos Tomas Perez appeared Tuesday at U.S. Superior Court for the Southern District of Florida and issued a guilty…
Thames Waterβs largest group of creditors is to offer an additional Β£1bn-plus sweetener in a bid to persuade Ofwat and the government to pursue a rescue deal with them that would head off the nationalisation of Britain’s biggest water utility. Sky News has learnt that the senior creditors, which account for roughly Β£13bn of Thames…
Leading British industrialist Lord Paul has died aged 94. The Indian-born founder of the UK-based steel and engineering Caparo group had been in hospital in recent days following a period of illness, Indian media reported. He died in London surrounded by members of his family. India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was among those who paid…
OpenAI said Tuesday it is launching an artificial intelligence-powered website browser, heightening the company’s competition with Google, the Alphabet-owned unit that has long dominated online search.Β The new browser, called ChatGPT Atlas, is for now only available on Apple laptops that run the company’s Mac operating system. Access will soon expand to Apple’s iOS, Microsoft…
At a recent news conference, President Trump touched on questions about tariffs, Gaza and vaccines before zeroing in on one of his favorite subjects: TV and radio ratings. A journalist, referring to an unconfirmed report that Howard Sternβs SiriusXM radio show was being canceled, handed Trump a sugar-coated softball: βIs the Hate Trump business model…
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey has refused an invitation from King Charles to a state dinner with Donald Trump in protest over Gaza. Sir Ed, who has been vocal in his disapproval of the US president, said he “thought and prayed long and hard” about whether to accept the invitation to the state banquet…
βKiss of the Spider Woman,β a sexual and scatological dazzler about an inmateβs obsession with a favorite musical, sounds like the kind of thing some folks wonβt watch even if they, too, were locked in a prison for years. Their loss. In the spirit of the film, Iβll try to change their mind. Itβs 1983…
