The government hinting at a rise in income tax at the budget only to not go through with it in a bid to win over voters would be “deplorable”, according to Labour peer Harriet Harman. Reports are swirling that the chancellor is considering a manifesto-breaking hike when she delivers her crucial fiscal statement next month…
Long Beach Poly, a 12-time Southern Section football champion, announced on Friday it will not participate in this seasonβs playoffs despite finishing second in the Moore League. The school earlier this season had six transfer students declared ineligible for providing false information on paperwork to the Southern Section, a violation of CIF bylaw 202. Hereβs…
A “significant” step has been taken in establishing a national restorative justice programme for victims of the Post Office’s Horizon IT scandal. Children of affected postmasters, as well as those directly hit by the faulty accounting software, will be part of the partially Fujitsu-funded programme, as the UK’s Restorative Justice Council acknowledged more than financial…
Two federal judges told the U.S. Department of Agriculture in separate rulings Friday that it must begin using billions of dollars in contingency funding to provide federal food assistance to poor American families despite the federal shutdown, but gave the agency until Monday to decide how to do so. Both Obama-appointed judges rejected Trump administration…
Polish director Jan Komasa might be best known in the United States for his 2019 Oscar-nominated film βCorpus Christi,β but his biggest box-office success was in Poland for his 2014 film βWarsaw 44,β about the Warsaw Uprising, the bloody effort by the Polish resistance to expel the occupying German army from the city toward the…
The government’s ‘one in, one out’ swap deal with France has so far returned 75 migrants, while 51 people have arrived in the UK under the scheme. Under the pilot scheme, enacted in August, the UK returns asylum seekers who cross the English Channel via small boat but accepts in exchange the same number of…
TORONTOΒ βΒ As soon as Blake Treinen entered for the ninth inning of Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday night, Clayton Kershaw dropped his guard and began to look around. For the previous three hours, the future Hall of Fame pitcher had been locked in on the game, mentally preparing for a potential relief appearance…
The manager of the bulk of TGI Fridays’ restaurants around the world has swooped to buy its British operations in a deal which preserves all 2,000 jobs at the chain. Sky News has learnt that Sugarloaf TGIF Management, run by former TGI Fridays chief executive Ray Blanchette, has struck a deal to take control of…
Is President Trump going to restart nuclear weapons testing? When will this federal shutdown end? Will Californians pass Proposition 50, scramble the stateβs congressional maps and shake up next yearβs midterm elections? Amid a swirl of high-stakes standoffs and unprecedented posturing by Trump, Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leaders in Washington and Sacramento, the future…
Nicey Nash-Betts has only ever lived in Los Angeles β and sheβs proud of that. βIβm an OG Angeleno,β says the Academy Award-winning actress whoβs lived all over the county, from Compton to Palmdale. When I ask her why sheβs stayed, she says, βThe weather.β And also: βMy family is here and I feel like…