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Union leaders are demanding no eleventh-hour retreat by the government on workers’ rights now their champion Angela Rayner is no longer in the cabinet. As delegates gather in Brighton for the TUC’s annual conference, the movement’s leadership is claiming four million people – one in eight of the UK workforce – are in “pervasive” insecure…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ The F-35 is the most advanced fighter jet on the planet, capable of waging electronic warfare, of dropping nuclear weapons, of evading the surveillance and missile defenses of Americaβs most fearsome enemies at supersonic speeds. Ten of them are being deployed by a newly branded War Department to Puerto Rico to combat drug traffickers in…
TORONTOΒ βΒ The smile is beatific, blissed out, even at an ungodly hour on our Zoom call from France. A week later, when I finally meet 43-year old filmmaker Oliver Laxe in person at a private Toronto celebration for his new movie βSirΓ’t,β he radiates serenity. Heβs the happiest (and maybe the tallest) person in the room….
It’s normally Nigel Farage who seizes the megaphone, but his big Birmingham Reform UK party conference was metaphorically gatecrashed by Angela Rayner’s dramatic resignation, followed by Sir Keir Starmer’s shock reshuffle. The massive Westminster news on Friday meant Mr Farage had to move his speech to avoid a clash with the prime minister’s reshuffle, as…
SΓO PAULO, BrazilΒ βΒ The Chargers played host to the Kansas City Chiefs on Friday in the first of the NFLβs record seven international games, with upcoming matchups between different teams in London, Madrid, Dublin and Berlin. Next season, the Rams will plant a flag in Australia with a regular-season game in Melbourne, the leagueβs first foray…
Peter Kyle, the new business and trade secretary, has pledged to deliver an “ambitious” growth agenda, telling the bosses of some of Britain’s biggest companies that he wants the government to play a role in creating the UK’s first trillion-dollar company. Sky News has learnt that Mr Kyle held a hastily convened call with business…
A Trump administration policy to deny bond hearings to immigrants who entered the country without authorization was upheld by an immigration appellate board Friday, expanding mandatory detention to thousands of people already behind bars and potentially millions more nationwide. Although the policy is being challenged in federal court, the ruling by the Board of Immigration…
In βTask,β premiering Sunday on HBO, Brad Ingelsby, creator of the 2021 miniseries βMare of Easttown,β which introduced the wider world to Wawa and the Delco accent, returns with another tale of crime and family in the rural-suburban wilds west of Philadelphia. Where women were at the center of βMare,β men are the subject here…
Nigel Farage has confirmed he wants to deport women asylum seekers back to the Taliban in Afghanistan if he becomes prime minister. The Reform UK leader’s position on the topic has not been clear, with him previously saying he wouldn’t send women back to the fundamentalist regime that took over after western militaries withdrew, before…
Brandyn Frye feels squeezed by two businesses trending in opposite directions β data centers such as one he manages outside Chicago hum along with soaring demand for workers to keep them running. “Everything in here needs service β tech support, HVAC support, electricians,” Frye said. But the supply of technical support he needs available 24/7…
