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…
In the eyes of Lakers coach JJ Redick, every team his group faces is a test. Still, many wondered if the Lakersβ litmus test would come from facing the defending champion Oklahoma City Thunder on Monday night. Even with All-Star and league most valuable player Shai Gilgeous-Alexander out with a strained abdominal, the Thunder are…
When leading AI company Anthropic launched its latest AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, at the end of last week, it broke many measures of intelligence and effectiveness – including one crucial benchmark: the vending machine test. Yes, AIs run vending machines now, under the watchful eyes of researchers at Anthropic and AI thinktank Andon Labs….
Chappell Roan has left her booking agency, Wasserman Music, over its founder Casey Wassermanβs ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein and convicted child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell. βAs of today, I am no longer represented by Wasserman, the talent agency led by Casey Wasserman,β Roan wrote on Monday in a post to social media. βI…
With a prime minister under extreme fire and unable to command a majority in the Commons on matters of personal authority, is politics too self-absorbed to fix a problem as broken as the system for special educational needs provision? Plans to reform the 12-year-old approach to SEND are expected to be announced within weeks –…
A crucial deadline set by Nancy Guthrieβs kidnappers passed without her return Monday evening, with the FBI saying it is not aware of any communication between the abductors and the Guthrie family and has not identified any suspects in the case. In a ransom note, the purported kidnappers gave the Guthries a deadline of 5…
MILANΒ βΒ Brittany Bowe will not leave her last 1,000-meter race on Olympic ice with a medal. Sheβll take something more valuable. βWhat makes this more special than anything is having my mom, my dad, my sister, up there in the stands cheering for me,β said Bowe, who finished fourth in her strongest speedskating event Monday at…
A technology business which provides a wide range of services to the insurance industry will this week announce a major funding injection jointly led by one of the co-founders of Zilch, the leading British fintech. Sky News understands that ManageMy, which helps insurers sell, service, underwrite and manage policies, will say it has landed $45m…
Snoop Doggβs daughter Cori Broadus and her fiancΓ© Wayne βDueceβ Polk bid a final farewell to their baby girl, less than a year after welcoming her into the world. Broadus and Polk celebrated the life of their infant daughter, Codi, over the weekend in a memorial attended by family and friends. On Sunday, Broadus shared…